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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2016-9318
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2016-9318
Aliases
Summary libxml2 2.9.4 and earlier, as used in XMLSec 1.2.23 and earlier and other products, does not offer a flag directly indicating that the current document may be read but other files may not be opened, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted document.
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 (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 5.5
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
3739-2 Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2/
43 Other https://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec/issues/43
94347 Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94347
msg00004.html Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
show_bug.cgi?id=772726 Other https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772726
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-04T16:39:51Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-04T16:39:51Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2016/9xxx/CVE-2016-9318.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2016-9318

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'poc'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]