CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-82880

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.34%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

YaCy Search Server through 1.941 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in SVG, FreeMind, and OpenSearch parsers that fail to disable external entity resolution. Attackers can publish malicious documents with DOCTYPE declarations containing SYSTEM entities pointing to local files, causing the crawler to exfiltrate file contents into the searchable index.

Risk Assessment

Risk of local file leakage into the public search index, potentially leading to exposure of sensitive information.

Recommendation

Update YaCy Search Server to the latest version or apply patches to disable external entity resolution in parsers.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

YaCy Search Server through 1.941 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in SVG, FreeMind, and OpenSearch parsers that fail to disable external entity resolution. Attackers can publish malicious documents with DOCTYPE declarations containing SYSTEM entities pointing to local files, causing the crawler to exfiltrate file contents into the searchable index.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS