CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2018-14404
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
3.68%
Original NVD Description
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
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