CVSS 3.0
4.7 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-5969
libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- xmlsoft:libxml2