CVE-2017-9233

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9233
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9233.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9233
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-07-25T20:29:00.220Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:25:17.464292Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

XML External Entity vulnerability in libexpat 2.2.0 and earlier (Expat XML Parser Library) allows attackers to put the parser in an infinite loop using a malformed external entity definition from an external DTD.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libexpat/libexpat

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.3.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.3.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.4.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.4.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.5.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.5.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.6.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.6.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
REC1_0
R_1_95_0
R_1_95_2
R_1_95_3
R_1_95_4
R_1_95_5
R_1_95_6
R_1_95_7
R_1_95_8
R_2_0_0
R_2_0_1
R_2_1_0
R_2_1_1
R_2_2_0
V1990307
V19981122
V19981231
V19990109
V19990425
V19990626
V19990709
V19990728
V19991013
V1_0
V1_1
V20000512
beta2
beta3
beta4
jclark-orig
libexpat-alpha-1
sourceforge_init
start

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "2.7.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "2.7.15"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9233.json"