NVD
- Id
- 20608
- Name
- CVE-2016-5300
- 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 7.8
- Severity
- High
- CVSS Base Score
- 7.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 10
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2016-06-16
- Modified Date
- 2016-11-29
- Seq
- 2016-5300