What is CVE-2026-82525?

CVE-2026-82525 is a medium-severity vulnerability, classified under Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-09-03.

How severe is CVE-2026-82525?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

CVE-2026-82525

CVE-2026-82525

Exterro FTK Imager before 8.3 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows attackers to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem by embedding malicious external entity references and attacker-controlled XSLT stylesheets within a Report.xml file inside a UFDR ZIP evidence item. Attackers can craft a malicious UFDR archive that, when previewed by an examiner, causes the XML parser to resolve file:// external entity references and execute msxsl:script within the external stylesheet to exfiltrate the resolved file contents to an attacker-controlled endpoint via a generated image URL.

Vulnerability class: XXE (XML External Entity)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-82525?: CVE-2026-82525 is a medium-severity vulnerability, classified under Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-09-03.
How severe is CVE-2026-82525?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.