5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.6%
Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 incorrectly performs entity
substitution in the doctype prolog, even if the application using
libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could
provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed, leads to the
exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors.