medium6.5
CVE-2026-91197
Flowable flowable-engine through 8.0.0 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in ProcessDiagramLayoutFactory.parseXml() that fails to disable …
Impact
Flowable flowable-engine through 8.0.0 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in ProcessDiagramLayoutFactory.parseXml() that fails to disable external entity resolution when parsing deployed BPMN resources. Attackers with process deployment privileges can embed DOCTYPE declarations with external entities in BPMN files to read arbitrary local files or trigger requests to internal network endpoints when diagram layout is computed.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|
| Flowable Flowable-Engine | through 8.0.0 |
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Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine
- https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/0779d68e5a3385b74d8acb8bc37901ff54513249/modules/flowable-engine/src/main/java/org/flowable/engine/impl/bpmn/diagram/ProcessDiagramLayoutFactory.java#L101-L118
- https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/0779d68e5a3385b74d8acb8bc37901ff54513249/modules/flowable5-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/bpmn/diagram/ProcessDiagramLayoutFactory.java#L97-L114
- https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/issues/4216
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/flowable-flowable-engine-through-8.0.0-xxe-via-processdiagramlayoutfactory
- https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/issues/4216