vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000061: Security patch for xmlsec1 (ALAS-2017-890)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 17, 2017
Added
Sep 15, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

xmlsec 1.2.23 and before is vulnerable to XML External Entity Expansion when parsing crafted input documents, resulting in possible information disclosure or denial of service

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-xmlsec1
Title
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