CVE-2016-5300
—CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
EPSS
7%p93
Published
()
Modified
Description
The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.
- Vendors
- canonicaldebianlibexpat projectgoogle
- Products
- ubuntu linux, debian linux, libexpat, android
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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