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Vulnerability details: VCID-zqqw-fe14-aaac
Vulnerability ID VCID-zqqw-fe14-aaac
Aliases CVE-2017-16931
Summary parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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 Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-16931.html
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517307
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16931
cvssv3 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16931
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16931
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
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-2017-16931.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-16931.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-16931
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766956
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16931
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/e26630548e7d138d2c560844c43820b6767251e3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
1517307 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517307
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-2017-16931 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16931
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-2017-16931.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

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required

unchanged

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none
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
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

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high

none

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required

unchanged

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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
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

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none

required

unchanged

changed

high

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16931
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

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high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16931
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

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required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.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

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required

unchanged

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high

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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)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

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none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.78882
EPSS Score 0.00601
Published At Nov. 1, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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