CVE-2015-6096: Microsoft .NET Framework

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XML DTD parser in Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, and 4.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, aka ".NET Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft .NET Framework: version 2.0 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.5 only; version 4.5.1 only; …

Published 2015-11-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.