Vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxslt
CVE-2013-4520
xslt.c in libxslt before 1.1.25 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a stylesheet that embeds a DTD, which causes a structure to be accessed as a different type. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2825.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (83.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Xmlsoft Libxslt — versions 0.0.1, 0.1.0, 0.2.0
References
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/239 (mailing-list, Patch)
- gitorious.org/libxslt/libxslt/commit/7089a62b8f133b42a2981cf1f920a8b3fe9a8caa (Exploit, Patch)
- www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/56072 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Patch)
- www.osvdb.org/99671 (vdb-entry)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/238 (mailing-list, Patch)