Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

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Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
definition
The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.
synonyms
XEE
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XML Bomb
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Billion Laughs Attack

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