CVE-2012-1102: Xml::atom Project Xml::atom

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was discovered that the XML::Atom Perl module before version 0.39 did not disable external entities when parsing XML from potentially untrusted sources. This may allow attackers to gain read access to otherwise protected resources, depending on how the library is used.

Affected products

• Xml::atom Project Xml::atom: before 0.39 (fixed in 0.39)

Published 2021-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.