CVE-2020-24977

libxml2: Buffer overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

El proyecto de GNOME libxml2 v2.9.10 tiene una vulnerabilidad de sobre lectura del buffer global en xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal en libxml2/entities.c. El problema ha sido corregido en el commit 50f06b3e

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.2.4 images Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and private cloud environments. Clusters and applications are all visible and managed from a single console—with security policy built in. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, which fix several bugs and security issues. Issues addressed include denial of service and integer overflow vulnerabilities.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2020-08-28 CVE Reserved
2020-09-03 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2024-08-04 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

CAPEC

References (23)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html	Mailing List
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0001	Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html	X_refsource_misc

URL	Date	SRC
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178	2024-08-04

URL	Date	SRC
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2	2023-11-07
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html	2023-11-07
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html	2023-11-07

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.html	2023-11-07
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.html	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KTUAGDLEHTH6HU66HBFAFTSQ3OKRAN3	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/674LQPJO2P2XTBTREFR5LOZMBTZ4PZAY	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KQXOHIE3MNY3VQXEN7LDQUJNIHOVHAW	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H3IQ7OQXBKWD3YP7HO6KCNOMLE5ZO2IR	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3ICASXZI2UQYFJAOQWHSTNWGED3VXOE	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JCHXIWR5DHYO3RSO7RAHEC6VJKXD2EH2	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O7MEWYKIKMV2SKMGH4IDWVU3ZGJXBCPQ	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RIQAMBA2IJUTQG5VOP5LZVIZRNCKXHEQ	2023-11-07
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24977	2021-05-18
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877788	2021-05-18

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"	Hci H410c Firmware Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Hci H410c Firmware"	-	-	Affected	in	Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"	Hci H410c Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Hci H410c"	-	-	Safe
Xmlsoft Search vendor "Xmlsoft"		Libxml2 Search vendor "Xmlsoft" for product "Libxml2"				2.9.10 Search vendor "Xmlsoft" for product "Libxml2" and version "2.9.10"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				31 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "31"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				32 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "32"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				33 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "33"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				15.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.1"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				15.2 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "15.2"		-		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Active Iq Unified Manager Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Active Iq Unified Manager"				>= 7.3 Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Active Iq Unified Manager" and version " >= 7.3"		windows		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Active Iq Unified Manager Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Active Iq Unified Manager"				>= 9.5 Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Active Iq Unified Manager" and version " >= 9.5"		vmware_vsphere		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Clustered Data Ontap Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Clustered Data Ontap"				-		-		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Clustered Data Ontap Antivirus Connector Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Clustered Data Ontap Antivirus Connector"				-		-		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Inventory Collect Tool Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Inventory Collect Tool"				-		-		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Manageability Software Development Kit Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Manageability Software Development Kit"				-		-		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Snapdrive Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Snapdrive"				-		unix		Affected
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Snapdrive Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Snapdrive"				-		windows		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment"				1.10.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Communications Cloud Native Core Network Function Cloud Native Environment" and version "1.10.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Enterprise Manager Base Platform Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Enterprise Manager Base Platform"				13.4.0.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Enterprise Manager Base Platform" and version "13.4.0.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Enterprise Manager Base Platform Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Enterprise Manager Base Platform"				13.5.0.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Enterprise Manager Base Platform" and version "13.5.0.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Enterprise Manager Ops Center Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Enterprise Manager Ops Center"				12.4.0.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Enterprise Manager Ops Center" and version "12.4.0.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Http Server Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Http Server"				12.2.1.3.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Http Server" and version "12.2.1.3.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Http Server Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Http Server"				12.2.1.4.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Http Server" and version "12.2.1.4.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Mysql Workbench Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Mysql Workbench"				<= 8.0.26 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Mysql Workbench" and version " <= 8.0.26"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools"				8.58 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools" and version "8.58"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Real User Experience Insight Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Real User Experience Insight"				13.4.1.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Real User Experience Insight" and version "13.4.1.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Real User Experience Insight Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Real User Experience Insight"				13.5.1.0 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Real User Experience Insight" and version "13.5.1.0"		-		Affected