Overview
- Description
- A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-476
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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