CVE-2026-117610

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Successful exploitation causes the application to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS)."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "Avoid enabling external entity / DTD processing for untrusted XML; prefer parsers configured without external entity resolution. Do not expose stream-chunked XML parse APIs to untrusted clients. Restrict network access to XML-processing services ([CME-202](https://cmetaxonomy.org/entries/CME-202.html), [CME-203](https://cmetaxonomy.org/entries/CME-203.html)). 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