CVE-2018-25282

· NIST NVD ↗

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.

MEDIUM
CVSS severity
6.2
CVSS base score
2026-04-26
Published

CWE codes

CWE-674

Sources