CVE-2024-45490
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.61%expat - security update
Published: 8/30/2024Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/expatfrom 0, < 2.6.3-r0
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.2.10-2+deb11u6
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.5.0-1+deb12u1
- Debian/libxmltokfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |