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GHSA-78h3-pg4x-j8cv libxmljs2 vulnerable to type confusion when parsing specially crafted XML

CRITICAL Published 2024-05-02 Modified 2024-11-25 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-34394
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
libxmljs2
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-843
Reviewed
2024-05-03

Affected packages

• npm libxmljs2: <= 0.35.0 (no fix yet)

Description

libxmljs2 is vulnerable to a type confusion vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted XML while invoking the `namespaces()` function (which invokes `XmlNode::get_local_namespaces()`) on a grand-child of a node that refers to an entity. This vulnerability can lead to denial of service and remote code execution.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-34394 libxmljs2 is vulnerable to a type confusion vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted XML while invoking the namespaces() function… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type weakness

References