Security Advisory

CVE-2018-25282

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-26 13:19:14
Last updated 2026-04-27 14:04:40
Assigner VulnCheck
CVSS score 6.9
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.