PT-2026-35252 · Undefined · Undefined

CVE-2018-25282 · Published 2026-04-26 · Updated 2026-04-26

NVD

CVSS v3.1

6.2

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Nmap 7.70 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malicious XML files with exponential entity expansion. Attackers can create a crafted XML file with nested entity definitions and open it through ZenMap's scan import functionality to cause the program to consume excessive system resources and crash.

Fix

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-25282

Affected Products

Undefined

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25282 · Security Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/nmap-denial-of-service-via-xml-entity-expansion · Note
• https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.70-setup.exe · Note
• https://exploit-db.com/exploits/45357 · Note