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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2017-8872
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2017-8872
Aliases
Summary The htmlParseTryOrFinish function in HTMLparser.c in libxml2 2.9.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or information disclosure.
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 9.1
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H 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)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

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low

none
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-17T21:59:00Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-17T21:59:00Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2017/8xxx/CVE-2017-8872.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2017-8872

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]