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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-0267 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6673-4983-2vx5 fonttools XML External Entity Injection (XXE) Vulnerability
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Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-03T14:27:45.728Z

Reserved: 2023-10-04T16:02:46.329Z

Link: CVE-2023-45139

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:14:19.258Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-10T16:15:46.767

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:26:25.513

Link: CVE-2023-45139

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-01-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-45139 - Bugzilla

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