CVE-2020-24977
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.70%
Description
GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.
How to fix CVE-2020-24977
To remediate CVE-2020-24977, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.9-r4 or later
- Debian/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 or later
Is CVE-2020-24977 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.9.9-r4
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |