VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-1148
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-07-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
Memory leak in the poolGrow function in expat/lib/xmlparse.c in expat before 2.1.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted XML files that cause improperly-handled reallocation failures when expanding entities.