CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-4449

7.1 HIGH Published 2016-06-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 8.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • xmlsoft libxml2 (<= 2.9.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References