ALPINE-CVE-2019-15903

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CVE-2019-15903
Published: 04 Sept 2019, 06:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:45

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

04 Sept 2019, 06:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:45
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•expat

    < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1 | < 2.2.7-r1

  • alpine•python2

    < 2.7.17-r0 | < 2.7.17-r0 | < 2.7.17-r0 | < 2.7.17-r0

References (1)