CVE-2016-5300

2016-06-1618:59:10

Alpine Linux Development Team

security.alpinelinux.org

7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

81.0%

JSON

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Alpine3.2-mainnoarchexpat< 2.2.0-r0UNKNOWN
Alpine3.3-mainnoarchexpat< 2.2.0-r0UNKNOWN
Alpine3.4-mainnoarchexpat< 2.2.0-r0UNKNOWN