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CVE-2018-20843

Published: 6/24/2019 Last updated: 5/30/2025 Reserved: 6/24/2019

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 7.5 High CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (4)

conf-expat conf-gtk2 conf-gtk3 ocaml-expat

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a 9.8.3.14

References (42)