CVE-2024-40896

Publication date

2024-12-23 00:00:00

Family

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.