CVE-2018-25282: Zenmap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nmap 7.70 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malicious XML files with exponential entity expansion. Attackers can create a crafted XML file with nested entity definitions and open it through ZenMap's scan import functionality to cause the program to consume excessive system resources and crash.

Affected products

• Zenmap Zenmap: version 7.70 only

Published 2026-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.