CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-52426

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

Published: Feb 04, 2024 | Modified: Mar 07, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

libexpat through 2.5.0 allows recursive XML Entity Expansion if XML_DTD is undefined at compile time.

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
Libexpat Libexpat_project * 2.5.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References