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CVE-2019-15903

CVSS v3.1 7.5 (High)
75% Progress
CVSS v2.0 5 (Medium)
50% Progress
EPSS 0.46 % (76th)
0.46% Progress
Affected Products 2
Advisories 59
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In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

Weaknesses
CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-776
Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2019-09-04 06:15:10
(5 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 03:05:35
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

Libexpat Project

Python

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Libexpat Project Libexpat prior 2.2.8 version cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat < 2.2.8

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Python from 2.7.0 version and prior 2.7.17 version cpe:2.3:a:python:python >= 2.7.0 < 2.7.17
  Python from 3.5.0 version and prior 3.5.8 version cpe:2.3:a:python:python >= 3.5.0 < 3.5.8
  Python from 3.6.0 version and prior 3.6.10 version cpe:2.3:a:python:python >= 3.6.0 < 3.6.10
  Python from 3.7.0 version and prior 3.7.5 version cpe:2.3:a:python:python >= 3.7.0 < 3.7.5