CVE-2020-24977
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 3.0%
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.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 6.5 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 2.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 87th percentile
- Published
- 2020-09-03
- Updated
- 2026-10-14
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0001
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html