CVE-2018-20843

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20843
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20843.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20843
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-06-24T17:15:09Z
Modified
2025-10-15T09:33:47.833124Z
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

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

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
Fixed
d3b78b42a2dcdea98e22625cfff67a49d47e6025

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
R_2_2_1
R_2_2_2
R_2_2_3
R_2_2_4
R_2_2_5
R_2_2_6
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

vanir_signatures

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        "id": "CVE-2018-20843-74406d59",
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        },
        "target": {
            "file": "expat/tests/runtests.c",
            "function": "START_TEST"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/d3b78b42a2dcdea98e22625cfff67a49d47e6025",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "id": "CVE-2018-20843-ee80e572",
        "signature_type": "Line",
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            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "expat/tests/runtests.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/d3b78b42a2dcdea98e22625cfff67a49d47e6025",
        "signature_version": "v1",
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    }
]