CVE-2023-52425

2024-02-0400:00:00

mitre

github.com

libexpat

denial of service

fix

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

yes

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a denial of service (resource consumption) because many full reparsings are required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "libexpat_project",
    "product": "libexpat",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "2.5.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]