CVE-2016-5851

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5851
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5851.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5851
Aliases
Published
2016-12-21T22:59:00.170Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:44:12.683519Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

python-docx before 0.8.6 allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted document.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python-openxml/python-docx

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
bc34ec95a9e7bdff01f5b43b1070bbc0c018ab25
Fixed
61b40b161b64173ab8e362aec1fd197948431beb
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:python-openxml_project:python-docx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.5"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.4.0
v0.5.0
v0.5.2
v0.5.3
v0.6.0
v0.7.0
v0.7.1
v0.7.2
v0.7.3
v0.7.4
v0.7.5
v0.7.6
v0.8.0
v0.8.1
v0.8.2
v0.8.3
v0.8.4
v0.8.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5851.json"