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Vulnerability details: VCID-th6j-c7js-aaaf
Vulnerability ID VCID-th6j-c7js-aaaf
Aliases CVE-2017-16932
GHSA-x2fm-93ww-ggvx
Summary parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-16932.html
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-16932.json
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epss 0.17956 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-16932
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
generic_textual HIGH https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
generic_textual HIGH https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517316
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16932
cvssv3 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x2fm-93ww-ggvx
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
cvssv3 7.5 https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
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 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3504-1
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3504-2
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3739-1
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
generic_textual HIGH https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
generic_textual HIGH http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-16932.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-16932.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-16932
https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16932
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3504-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3504-2
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3739-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3504-1/
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
1517316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517316
882613 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882613
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2017-16932 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
CVE-2017-16932.HTML https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-16932.html
CVE-2017-16932.YML https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-16932.yml
GHSA-x2fm-93ww-ggvx https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x2fm-93ww-ggvx
USN-3504-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3504-1/
USN-3504-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3504-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-16932.json
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: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
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: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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: 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/2017/11/msg00041.html
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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
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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
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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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.82884
EPSS Score 0.00942
Published At Dec. 17, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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