Vulnerability CVE-2023-45139


Published: 2024-01-10

Description:
fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0.

Type:

CWE-611

(Information Exposure Through XML External Entity Reference)

 References:
https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/security/advisories/GHSA-6673-4983-2vx5
https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/commit/9f61271dc1ca82ed91f529b130fe5dc5c9bf1f4c
https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/releases/tag/4.43.0

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