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Advisory details: gitlab / nuget/libxml2/CVE-2014-3660
Advisory ID gitlab/nuget/libxml2/CVE-2014-3660
Aliases CVE-2014-3660
Summary Uncontrolled Resource Consumption parser.c in libxml2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a variant of the "billion laughs" attack.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (2)
Reference id Reference type URL
CVE-2014-3660 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3660
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/nuget/libxml2/CVE-2014-3660.yml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

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medium

low

multiple

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none

none

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complete

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complete

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