CVE-2020-24977

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

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2.0

6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS

3.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 89th percentile

Published

2020-09-03

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2020-24972
• CVE-2020-24978
• CVE-2020-24963
• CVE-2020-24982
• CVE-2020-24955
• CVE-2020-24983