CVE-2025-27136

LocalS3 CreateBucketConfiguration Endpoint XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

Published Mar 10, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
LocalS3 is an Amazon S3 mock service for testing and local development. Prior to version 1.21, the LocalS3 service's bucket creation endpoint is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. When processing the CreateBucketConfiguration XML document during bucket creation, the service's XML parser is configured to resolve external entities. This allows an attacker to declare an external entity that references an internal URL, which the server will then attempt to fetch when parsing the XML. The vulnerability specifically occurs in the location constraint processing, where the XML parser resolves external entities without proper validation or restrictions. When the external entity is resolved, the server makes an HTTP request to the specified URL and includes the response content in the parsed XML document. This vulnerability can be exploited to perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks, allowing an attacker to make requests to internal services or resources that should not be accessible from external networks. The server will include the responses from these internal requests in the resulting bucket configuration, effectively leaking sensitive information. The attacker only needs to be able to send HTTP requests to the LocalS3 service to exploit this vulnerability.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-7729 LocalS3 CreateBucketConfiguration Endpoint XML External Entity (XXE) Injection
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g6wm-2v64-wq36 LocalS3 CreateBucketConfiguration Endpoint XML External Entity (XXE) Injection
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description LocalS3 is an Amazon S3 mock service for testing and local development. Prior to version 1.21, the LocalS3 service's bucket creation endpoint is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. When processing the CreateBucketConfiguration XML document during bucket creation, the service's XML parser is configured to resolve external entities. This allows an attacker to declare an external entity that references an internal URL, which the server will then attempt to fetch when parsing the XML. The vulnerability specifically occurs in the location constraint processing, where the XML parser resolves external entities without proper validation or restrictions. When the external entity is resolved, the server makes an HTTP request to the specified URL and includes the response content in the parsed XML document. This vulnerability can be exploited to perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks, allowing an attacker to make requests to internal services or resources that should not be accessible from external networks. The server will include the responses from these internal requests in the resulting bucket configuration, effectively leaking sensitive information. The attacker only needs to be able to send HTTP requests to the LocalS3 service to exploit this vulnerability.
Title LocalS3 CreateBucketConfiguration Endpoint XML External Entity (XXE) Injection
Weaknesses CWE-611
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Mar 10, 2025, 7:09 PM
Reserved
Feb 19, 2025, 4:30 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Mar 10, 2025, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:03 AM