What is CVE-2021-30485?

CVE-2021-30485 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ezxml Project, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-04-11.

How severe is CVE-2021-30485?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Ezxml Project

CVE-2021-30485

An issue was discovered in libezxml.a in ezXML 0.8.6. The function ezxml_internal_dtd(), while parsing a crafted XML file, performs incorrect memory handling, leading to a NULL pointer dereference while running strcmp() on a NULL pointer.

EPSS: 0.011 (62.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ezxml_project Ezxml — versions 0.8.6
Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-30485?: CVE-2021-30485 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ezxml Project, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-04-11.
How severe is CVE-2021-30485?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.