9.3

CVE-2003-1564

libxml2, possibly before 2.5.0, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka the "billion laughs attack."

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Xmlsoft ≫ Libxml2 Version < 2.5.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.85% 0.741
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 6.5 2.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 9.3 8.6 10
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.