CVE-2018-20843 Information

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7 XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00039.html https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5226 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_7/expat/Changes https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/186 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262/commits/11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00028.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CEJJSQSG3KSUQY4FPVHZ7ZTT7FORMFVD/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IDAUGEB3TUP6NEKJDBUBZX7N5OAUOOOK/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/39 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-08 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190703-0001/ https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51011533 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4040-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4040-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4472 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5