CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16932

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-11-23 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-23
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.

Affected configurations

• xmlsoft libxml2 (<= 2.9.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References