VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2018-14404
CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.65%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
Weakness classification
- CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory