CVE-2020-14940: Herac Tuxguitar

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in io/gpx/GPXDocumentReader.java in TuxGuitar 1.5.4. It uses misconfigured XML parsers, leading to XXE while loading GP6 (.gpx) and GP7 (.gp) tablature files.

Affected products

• Herac Tuxguitar: version 1.5.4 only

Published 2020-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.