Medium severity · published Sep 3, 2020
CVE-2020-24977
GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c
6.5
CVSS
3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.0% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AI
Active IQ Unified Manager · Netapp
7.3 and later; 9.5 and later · source: NVD
CD
Clustered Data Ontap · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CD
Clustered Data Ontap Antivirus Connector · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CC
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
EM
Enterprise Manager Base Platform · Oracle
13.4.0.0; 13.5.0.0 · source: NVD
EM
Enterprise Manager Ops Center · Oracle
12.4.0.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 32; 33 · source: NVD
HH
Hci H410c Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HS
Http Server · Oracle
12.2.1.3.0; 12.2.1.4.0 · source: NVD
IC
Inventory Collect Tool · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24977
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24977
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.html
Patch
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2
Exploit
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
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