CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2099

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-05-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 3.1.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via an invalid character in an XML document.

Affected configurations

• apache xerces-c\+\+ (<= 3.1.3) • opensuse opensuse 13.2

References