CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-3541

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Jul 09, 2021 | Modified: Mar 01, 2022
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service.

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libxml2 Xmlsoft * 2.9.11 (excluding)
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-91.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:7.78.0-3.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.37-80.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.16-10.Final_redhat_2.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2-0:1.15.7-22.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.48-29.redhat_1.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_md-1:2.0.8-41.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.2-68.GA.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.39.2-41.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1g-11.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-chil-0:1.0.0-11.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-pkcs11-0:0.4.10-26.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-91.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:7.78.0-3.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.37-80.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.16-10.Final_redhat_2.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2-0:1.15.7-22.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.48-29.redhat_1.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_md-1:2.0.8-41.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.2-68.GA.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.39.2-41.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1g-11.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-chil-0:1.0.0-11.jbcs.el7 *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-pkcs11-0:0.4.10-26.jbcs.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libxml2-0:2.9.7-9.el8_4.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libxml2-0:2.9.7-9.el8_4.2 *
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 RedHat libxml2 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-controller-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-log-reader-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-must-gather-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-operator-bundle:v1.4.6-5 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-registry-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-rsync-transfer-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-plugin-for-aws-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-plugin-for-gcp-rhel8:v1.4.6-3 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-restic-restore-helper-rhel8:v1.4.6-5 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-rhel8:v1.4.6-5 *
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.4 RedHat rhmtc/openshift-velero-plugin-rhel8:v1.4.6-4 *
Libxml2 Ubuntu focal *
Libxml2 Ubuntu groovy *
Libxml2 Ubuntu hirsute *
Libxml2 Ubuntu precise/esm *
Libxml2 Ubuntu trusty *
Libxml2 Ubuntu upstream *
Libxml2 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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