CVE-2016-5300
HIGH7.5EPSS 2.0%Published: 6/16/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/expatfrom 0, < 2.2.0-r0
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.1-3
- Debian/libxmltokfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |