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Vulnerability details: VCID-mxw9-b35w-aaaa
Vulnerability ID VCID-mxw9-b35w-aaaa
Aliases CVE-2017-5969
Summary libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.
Status Disputed
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5969.json
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rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421996
cvssv2 2.6 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
cvssv2 2.6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5969
cvssv3 4.7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5969
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
generic_textual HIGH https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5969.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5969
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5969
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188
1421996 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421996
855001 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855001
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2017-5969 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5969
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5969.json
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

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
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

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5969
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

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5969
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

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
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

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.73781
EPSS Score 0.00417
Published At Dec. 17, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-04-16T22:58:47.100698+00:00 NVD CVE Status Improver Improve https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2017-5969 36.0.0