CVE Database · CVE-2008-3281
CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
2.51%
Published
Aug 27, 2008
Modified
Apr 22, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (26)
References (20)