PT-2015-3363 · Xmlsoft+4 · Libxml2+4

David Drysdale · Published 2015-04-14 · Updated 2026-03-13 · CVE-2015-1819

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient restriction of XML links to external objects in the libxml2 library's XML file parser. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted XML document to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, through an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

XXE

XML Entity Expansion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

CWE-776

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

BDU:2018-01269

CESA-2015_1419

CESA-2015_2550

CVE-2015-1819

DLA-266-1

DSA-3430-1

GHSA-Q7WX-62R7-J2X7

MGASA-2015-0358

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10192-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10549-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11340-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11912-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13165-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10356-1

RHSA-2015:1419

RHSA-2015:2550

RHSA-2015_1419

RHSA-2015_2550

SUSE-SU-2016:0030-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0049-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0786-1

SUSE-SU-2016_0030-1

SUSE-SU-2016_0049-1

USN-2812-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libxml2

References · 142

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-1819.yml · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-7499.yml · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-5312.yml · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172943.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172710.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8035 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-1419.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7941 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0358 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q7wx-62r7-j2x7 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1819 · Security Note