CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2014-3660
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
3.99%
Original NVD Description
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a variant of the "billion laughs" attack.