CVE-2023-49110 — When the Kiuwan Local Analyzer uploads the scan results to the Kiuwan SAST web a

When the Kiuwan Local Analyzer uploads the scan results to the Kiuwan SAST web application (either on-premises or cloud/SaaS solution), the transmitted data consists of a ZIP archive containing several files, some of them in the XML file format. During Kiuwan's server-side p

01What is this vulnerability?

When the Kiuwan Local Analyzer uploads the scan results to the Kiuwan SAST web application (either on-premises or cloud/SaaS solution), the transmitted data consists of a ZIP archive containing several files, some of them in the XML file format. During Kiuwan's server-side processing of these XML files, it resolves external XML entities, resulting in a XML external entity injection attack. An…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Kiuwan	SAST	<master.1808.p685.q13371

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-06-20T12:29:34.997Z
• Last modified: 2025-11-04T17:13:01.132Z

09References

• r.sec-consult.com — https://r.sec-consult.com/kiuwan
• www.kiuwan.com — https://www.kiuwan.com/docs/display/K5/%5B2024-05-30%5D+Change+Log