Riskcovery

CVE-2021-4249

xml-conduit DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Parse.hs infinite loop

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Dec 18, 2022
Updated
Apr 15, 2025
Reserved
Dec 18, 2022

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Description

A vulnerability was found in xml-conduit. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file xml-conduit/src/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs of the component DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Handler. The manipulation leads to infinite loop. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 1.9.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 4be1021791dcdee8b164d239433a2043dc0939ea. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216204.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LVulDB

Weaknesses

  • CWE-404 Denial of Service -> CWE-835 Infinite Loop

Affected Products

ProductVersions
xml-conduitunspecified
  • 0.5.0Affected
  • 0.5.0.1Affected
  • 0.5.1Affected
  • 0.5.1.1Affected
  • 0.5.1.2Affected
  • 0.5.2Affected
  • 0.5.3Affected
  • 0.5.3.1Affected
  • 0.5.4Affected
  • 0.6.0Affected
  • 0.6.1Affected
  • 0.7.0Affected
  • 0.7.0.1Affected
  • 0.7.0.2Affected
  • 0.7.0.3Affected
  • 1.0.0Affected
  • 1.0.1Affected
  • 1.0.1.1Affected
  • 1.0.2Affected
  • 1.0.2.1Affected
  • 1.0.3Affected
  • 1.0.3.1Affected
  • 1.0.3.2Affected
  • 1.0.3.3Affected
  • 1.1.0Affected
  • and 49 more versions

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