Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU82999

XML Entity Expansion in kaml - CVE-2023-28118

Published: November 13, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU82999

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28118

CWE-ID: CWE-776

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash. A remote unauthenticated attacker can pass specially crafted XML data to the application and perform a denial of service attack.

Affected software

kaml
IBM Security Guardium

How to mitigate CVE-2023-28118

Install updates from vendor's website.

kaml - update to 0.53.0

External References

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