ALPINE-CVE-2020-7595
Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 0
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Published: 21 Jan 2020, 23:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:47
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
21 Jan 2020, 23:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:47
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.
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•libxml2
< 2.9.8-r2 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3 | < 2.9.8-r3