THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2024-8176 (HIGH 7.5) — 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 c
[NVD] CVE-2024-8176 (HIGH 7.5) — 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 c
CVE-2024-8176 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2025-03-14T09:15:14.157
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 serv
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2024-8176cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8176