Nico Schlebusch
Java developer, software architect at Apace Systems
Centurion, South Africa
System and Software Architecture
Software system design, implementation and maintenance using Java, Jakarta EE, Maven, Nexus, PostgreSQL, Wildfly Application Server, JUnit, Arquillian and any other open source library and/or tool that fulfil a specific need.
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What is XXE and why should I care?
An XML External Entity attack is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. This attack occurs when XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a weakly configured XML parser. XML parsers are by default insecure in most programming languages.
1 What is XXE?
2 Who is vulnerable to an XXE attack?
3 Demo of attacks against Java
4 How to fix it
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