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Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-7595

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity infinite loop in the libxml2 package (Alpine). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 7.8% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)7.8%top 5.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20libxml22.9.8-r3ALPINE-CVE-2020-7595
Alpine:v3.21libxml22.9.8-r3ALPINE-CVE-2020-7595
Alpine:v3.22libxml22.9.8-r3ALPINE-CVE-2020-7595
Alpine:v3.23libxml22.9.8-r3ALPINE-CVE-2020-7595
Alpine:v3.24libxml22.9.8-r3ALPINE-CVE-2020-7595
Debian:12libxml22.9.10+dfsg-2.1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7595
Debian:13libxml22.9.10+dfsg-2.1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7595
Debian:14libxml22.9.10+dfsg-2.1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7595
RubyGemsnokogiri1.10.8GHSA-7553-jr98-vx47

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-835 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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