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CVE-2016-3705

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 5.10%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-05-17 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-3705
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.10%

Original Filing — NVD Description

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.