A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in AutoUpdater.NET up to 1.5.7. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the file AutoUpdater.cs. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a xml external entity reference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-611. The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

AutoUpdater.cs in AutoUpdater.NET before 1.5.8 allows XXE.

The weakness was disclosed 03/23/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-20627 since 03/23/2020. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 1.5.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• AutoUpdater.NET

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• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7

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• open-source

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