Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:12247Denial Of Service (DoS) Or Arbitrary Code Execution
0.008 Low
EPSS
Percentile
81.9%
expat is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution attacks. When users input malformed document, expat XML parser mishandles the input which causes a buffer overflow during the processing and error reporting. This leading to a denial of service and conceivably result in remote code execution.
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