CVE-2021-3541Medium· 6.5▾ SunlitA flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service.
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 35.8 · likelihood 0.4 · exploitation 0
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Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
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A flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service.
libxml2 < 2.9.11jboss_core_serviceszfs_storage_appliance_kit = 8.8active_iq_unified_managercloud_backupclustered_data_ontapclustered_data_ontap_antivirus_connectormanageability_software_development_kitontap_select_deploy_administration_utilitysmi-s_providersnapdriveh410c_firmwareh300s_firmwareh500s_firmwareh700s_firmwareh300e_firmwareh500e_firmwareh700e_firmwareh410s_firmwareUpgrade past the affected range:
libxml2 2.9.11Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
CVE-2021-3517High· 8.6There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11
CVE-2021-3516High· 7.8There's a flaw in libxml2's xmllint in versions before 2.9.11
CVE-2021-3537Medium· 5.9A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference
CVE-2021-3518High· 8.8There's a flaw in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11
CVE-2020-24977Medium· 6.5GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c
CVE-2020-7595High· 7.5xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.