PoC Index

CVE-2021-45960

HIGH 9.0EPSS 4.2%

In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory).

CVSS v3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
9.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
4.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 90th percentile
Published
2022-01-01
Updated
2025-05-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

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