vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-40896

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 23, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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