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.
History

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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threat_severity

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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.
Title Apicurio/apicurio-registry: apicurio-registry: xml entity-expansion denial of service via internal dtd subset
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat apicurio Registry
Weaknesses CWE-776
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:apicurio_registry:3
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat apicurio Registry
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-25T23:23:20.902Z

Reserved: 2026-06-23T12:18:15.412Z

Link: CVE-2026-12993

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cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-06-10T13:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-12993 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-26T01:00:06Z