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Vulnerability details: VCID-wqc9-2nup-r7d5
Vulnerability ID VCID-wqc9-2nup-r7d5
Aliases CVE-2017-8872
Summary Out-of-bounds Read The htmlParseTryOrFinish function in HTMLparser.c in libxml2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or information disclosure.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.9
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.4 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-8872.json
epss 0.00233 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-8872
epss 0.00233 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-8872
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200
ssvc Track https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200
cvssv2 1.9 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 5.4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
ssvc Track https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-8872.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-8872
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8872
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
1449541 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449541
862450 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862450
CVE-2017-8872 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8872
USN-4991-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4991-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-8872.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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-17T21:59:00Z/ Found at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N 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)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.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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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-17T21:59:00Z/ Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.46294
EPSS Score 0.00233
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:36:53.188090+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/nuget/libxml2/CVE-2017-8872.yml 38.6.0