Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
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.