Security Advisory

CVE-2018-20843

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-06-24 16:06:38
Last updated 2025-05-30 19:39:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).