Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2003-1564
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
1.62%
Original Filing — NVD Description
libxml2, possibly before 2.5.0, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka the "billion laughs attack."