VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-3627

CVSS score4.3 NONE
EPSS probability1.73%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-10-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Primary references