🛡️ CVE-2016-15026 — dd-plist

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-611 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

dd-plist XML External Entitly vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in 3breadt dd-plist 1.17 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to xml external entity reference. An attack has to be approached locally. Upgrading to version 1.18 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 8c954e8d9f6f6863729e50105a8abf3f87fff74c. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-221486 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-15026 is classified as CWE-611: XML External Entity Reference (XXE). An XML parser resolves external entities, letting a crafted document read local files or reach internal services.

Affected software

CVE-2016-15026 is recorded against 1 package.

  • com.googlecode.plist:dd-plist (fixed in 1.18)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 February 2023 and last revised on 1 March 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
vuldb.com (Web)
vuldb.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-611
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-02-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-03-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.googlecode.plist:dd-plist — 1.18

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