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by jerematasno 4153 days ago
It doesn't have to be internet accessible, AFAIK. If an attacker can get something to do arbitrary DNS lookups, I think it can be attacked. For instance, monitoring/log correlation software might be vulnerable.
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If you have backend systems parsing XML, then an XXE[1] attack could trigger a DNS lookup, for example.

[1]https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_%28XXE%2...

Ooh, that could lead to some very interesting attack vectors. :D