CVE-2020-7595
libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.48%
Description
xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.
How to fix CVE-2020-7595
To remediate CVE-2020-7595, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.8-r2 or later
- Debian/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-2.1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.10.8 or later
Is CVE-2020-7595 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2.9.8-r2
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-2.1
- from 0, < 1.10.8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |