7.5
HIGH
CVE-2023-52425
"Oracle libexpat Denial of Service Vulnerability"
Description

libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a denial of service (resource consumption) because many full reparsings are required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 4, 2024, 8:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 26, 2024, 8:35 p.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2023-52425 has a 11 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-52425 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Libexpat_project libexpat
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2023-52425.

URL Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/20/5
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/789 Exploit Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00006.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PNRIHC7DVVRAIWFRGV23Y6UZXFBXSQDB/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WNUBSGZFEZOBHJFTAD42SAN4ATW2VEMV/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240614-0003/

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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poikl246/DevSecOps-2024-v2

Задание по DevSecOps второе задание

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 5, 2024, 8:20 p.m. This repo has been linked 92 different CVEs too.
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OzNetNerd/CheckovOutputProcessor

None

Dockerfile Shell

Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 30, 2024, 10:41 p.m. This repo has been linked 31 different CVEs too.
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Atamik03/API-calc-dz

None

Dockerfile Python HTML

Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 26, 2024, 4:44 p.m. This repo has been linked 26 different CVEs too.
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m-pasima/CI-CD-Security-image-scan

None

Python Dockerfile

Updated: 5 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 18, 2024, 5:19 p.m. This repo has been linked 6 different CVEs too.
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GrigGM/05-virt-04-docker-hw

None

HCL

Updated: 6 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 30, 2024, 7:53 p.m. This repo has been linked 54 different CVEs too.
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PaulZtx/docker_practice

None

Dockerfile Python

Updated: 7 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 13, 2024, 6:31 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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TimoTielens/httpd-security

Docker Image for Apache HTTP Server that already includes files based on securitytxt.org

Dockerfile

Updated: 8 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 27, 2024, 9:07 p.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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fokypoky/places-list

None

asp-net-core csharp docker dockerfile javascript react webapi docker-compose

C# Dockerfile HTML JavaScript CSS

Updated: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 22, 2024, 6:42 p.m. This repo has been linked 383 different CVEs too.
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egorvozhzhov/docker-test

None

Dockerfile Python

Updated: 8 months, 4 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 22, 2024, 10:35 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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Murken-0/docker-vulnerabilities

None

Dockerfile Python

Updated: 9 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 20, 2024, 1:58 p.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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robertsirc/sle-bci-demo

None

HTML C# CSS JavaScript Dockerfile

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
1 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Aug. 30, 2023, 8:51 p.m. This repo has been linked 62 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2023-52425 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-52425 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Aug. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE CISA-ADP CWE-400
    Added CVSS V3.1 CISA-ADP AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240614-0003/ [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 01, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/20/5 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 09, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00006.html [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 26, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PNRIHC7DVVRAIWFRGV23Y6UZXFBXSQDB/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WNUBSGZFEZOBHJFTAD42SAN4ATW2VEMV/ [No types assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 09, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/789 No Types Assigned https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/789 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-400
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 2.5.0
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Feb. 04, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a denial of service (resource consumption) because many full reparsings are required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed.
    Added Reference MITRE https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/789 [No types assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2023-52425 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.09 }} 0.03%

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0.38020

percentile

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