GHSA-748j-wm96-4wh5MediumCVSS 6.5

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

Published
June 26, 2026
Last Modified
November 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/io.apicurio:apicurio-registry-schema-util-xml:>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.1
  • maven/io.apicurio:apicurio-registry-schema-util-xml:< 3.2.6

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