Security Advisory

CVE-2024-40896

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-12-23 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-02-28 13:07:30
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In libxml2 2.11 before 2.11.9, 2.12 before 2.12.9, and 2.13 before 2.13.3, the SAX parser can produce events for external entities even if custom SAX handlers try to override entity content (by setting "checked"). This makes classic XXE attacks possible.