7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.8 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.609 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.7%
In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that
contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high
amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for
denial-of-service attacks).
Author | Note |
---|---|
mdeslaur | xmlparse.c doesn’t appear to be built in the firefox package |
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | audacity | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | ayttm | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | cableswig | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | cadaver | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | cadaver | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | cadaver | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | cadaver | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | cadaver | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | coin3 | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | coin3 | < any | UNKNOWN |
bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5226
github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_7/expat/Changes
github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262
github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262/commits/11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2018-20843
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20843
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20843
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4040-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4040-2
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4852-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5455-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20843
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.8 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.609 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.7%