CVE Database · CVE-2016-3705
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
5.10%
Published
May 17, 2016
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (9)
References (20)