CVE-2018-25282 — Nmap 7.70 Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion
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. At…
Published: 2026-04-26 · CVSS: 6.9 · CVSS 4.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7