CVE-2026-82880

YaCy Search Server through 1.941 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in SVG, FreeMind, and OpenSearch parsers that fail to disable external entity resolution. Attackers can publish malicious documents with DOCTYPE declarations containing SYSTEM entities pointing to local files, causing the crawler to exfiltrate file contents into the searchable index.

  • Published Aug 31, 2026
  • CVSS 8.7 high
  • 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2026-82880 at the National Vulnerability Database