MEDIUM 6.5 Maven

Apicurio Registry is vulnerable to denial of service through XML entity expansion

GHSA-748j-wm96-4wh5 · CVE-2026-12993

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Description

A flaw was found in Apicurio Registry. The DocumentBuilderAccessor correctly blocks external DTD and schema access but does not disable DOCTYPE declarations or enable FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING. An attacker with artifact-write permission can upload XML documents with internal entity-expansion payloads (billion-laughs variant) that cause CPU and heap exhaustion, partially mitigated by the JAXP default 64,000 entity-expansion limit.

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