CVE-2024-45490
expat - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.61%
Description
An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.
How to fix CVE-2024-45490
To remediate CVE-2024-45490, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/expat—upgrade to 2.6.3-r0 or later
- Debian/expat—upgrade to 2.2.10-2+deb11u6 or later
- —upgrade to 2.5.0-1+deb12u1 or later
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2024-45490 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 2.6.3-r0
- from 0, < 2.2.10-2+deb11u6
- from 0, < 2.5.0-1+deb12u1
- from 0
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 |