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Vulnerability · Published Sep 3, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-24977

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the libxml2 package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.0% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)3.0%top 12.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20libxml22.9.10-r5ALPINE-CVE-2020-24977
Alpine:v3.21libxml22.9.10-r5ALPINE-CVE-2020-24977
Alpine:v3.22libxml22.9.10-r5ALPINE-CVE-2020-24977
Alpine:v3.23libxml22.9.10-r5ALPINE-CVE-2020-24977
Alpine:v3.24libxml22.9.10-r5ALPINE-CVE-2020-24977
Debian:12libxml22.9.10+dfsg-6.2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24977
Debian:13libxml22.9.10+dfsg-6.2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24977
Debian:14libxml22.9.10+dfsg-6.2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24977
Rocky Linux:8libxml20:2.9.7-9.el8RLSA-2021:1597

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References