CyberRota Analysis
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2016-5300
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.54%
Original NVD Description
The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.