vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2024-40896: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 3, 2025
Added
Dec 5, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

In libxml2 2.11 before 2.11.9, 2.12 before 2.12.9, and 2.13 before 2.13.3, the SAX parser can produce events for external entities even if custom SAX handlers try to override entity content (by setting "checked"). This makes classic XXE attacks possible.

Solutions

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