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CVE-2021-4249
xml-conduit DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Parse.hs infinite loop
Medium4.3EPSS 0.84%
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Description
A vulnerability was found in xml-conduit. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file xml-conduit/src/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs of the component DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Handler. The manipulation leads to infinite loop. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 1.9.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 4be1021791dcdee8b164d239433a2043dc0939ea. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216204.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.84% · top 42% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 0.5.0
- affected 0.5.0.1
- affected 0.5.1
- affected 0.5.1.1
- affected 0.5.1.2
- affected 0.5.2
- affected 0.5.3
- affected 0.5.3.1
- affected 0.5.4
- affected 0.6.0
- affected 0.6.1
- affected 0.7.0
- affected 0.7.0.1
- affected 0.7.0.2
- affected 0.7.0.3
- affected 1.0.0
- affected 1.0.1
- affected 1.0.1.1
- affected 1.0.2
- affected 1.0.2.1
- affected 1.0.3
- affected 1.0.3.1
- affected 1.0.3.2
- affected 1.0.3.3
- affected 1.1.0
- affected 1.1.0.1
- affected 1.1.0.2
- affected 1.1.0.3
- affected 1.1.0.4
- affected 1.1.0.5
- affected 1.1.0.6
- affected 1.1.0.7
- affected 1.1.0.8
- affected 1.1.0.9
- affected 1.2.0
- affected 1.2.0.1
- affected 1.2.0.2
- affected 1.2.0.3
- affected 1.2.1
- affected 1.2.1.1
- and 34 more
References (4)
- https://github.com/snoyberg/xml/pull/161 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-conduit-1.9.1.0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/snoyberg/xml/commit/4be1021791dcdee8b164d239433a2043dc0939ea (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?id.216204 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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