6.5Medium

Redhat Build Of Apicurio Registry

CVE-2026-12993

A flaw was found in Apicurio Registry. The DocumentBuilderAccessor correctly blocks external DTD and schema access but does not disable DOCTYPE declarations or enable FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING. An attacker with artifact-write permission can upload XML documents with internal entity-expansion payloads (billion-laughs variant) that cause CPU and heap exhaustion, partially mitigated by the JAXP default 64,000 entity-expansion limit.

What this means for your business

  • It affects Redhat Build Of Apicurio Registry. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
  • An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
  • FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.5% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 43% of all known flaws.

What to do

  1. 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Redhat Build Of Apicurio Registry, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
  2. 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.

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Scoring

CVSS
6.5 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-776
Assigned by
secalert@redhat.com

Dates

Published
2026-06-26
Last modified
2026-08-25
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Redhat Build Of Apicurio Registry3.0 - 3.2

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

References