CVE-2026-82880
Description
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server
- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/blob/Release_1.941/source/net/yacy/document/parser/images/svgParser.java#L72
- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/blob/Release_1.941/source/net/yacy/document/parser/mmParser.java#L66
- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/blob/Release_1.941/source/net/yacy/document/parser/xml/opensearchdescriptionReader.java#L119
- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/commit/3c3a307e8b7a0ebbc4d1e6b10898b52e15c0cd44
- https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/issues/818
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/yacy-search-server-through-1.941-xml-external-entity-injection-via-parsers
CWEs
CWE-611
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.