CVE-2021-3541

CVSS v3 Score
6.5
Medium
CVSS v2 Score
4.0
Medium

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service.

CVSS:6.5(Medium)

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 cra...

CVSS:6.5(Medium)

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consu...

CVSS:6.5(Medium)

Nokogiri gem 1.5.x has Denial of Service via infinite loop when parsing XML documents

CVSS:6.5(Medium)

Nokogiri gem 1.5.x and 1.6.x has DoS while parsing XML entities by failing to apply limits

CVSS:6.5(Medium)

Infoblox NIOS before 8.5.2 allows entity expansion during an XML upload operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

CVSS:6.5(Medium)

Jenkins Code Coverage API Plugin 1.1.4 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.