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CVE-2024-8176

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base
7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.3%
69.8th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-674
Published 2025-03-14 · modified 2026-09-21

Description

A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the environment and library usage.

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org