CVE•Published 2026-04-13•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-40042
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Pachno 1.0.6 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by exploiting unsafe XML parsing in the TextParser helper. Attackers can inject malicious XML entities through wiki table syntax and inline tags in issue descriptions, comments, and wiki articles to trigger entity resolution via simplexml_load_string() without LIBXML_NONET restrictions.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-13
Modified 2026-04-13
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-40042Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-40042Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-40042Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-40042GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-40042" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-40042 on GitHub.