Vulnerability · NVD

CVE-2024-8176

CVE-2024-8176 : high severity (CVSS 7.5). No tracked catalog app is linked to this CVE.

Severity (CVSS): 7.5
Exploitation: 1.3 %
Tracked apps: 0
Still exposed: 0

Published on 2025-03-14

A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the environment and library usage.

Attack vector : Network No privileges required No user interaction

Show raw CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS 1.33% above median percentile 69.8%

OS versions that fix this CVE

This CVE is resolved by the following OS security releases. Update the OS to at least the listed version.

iOS Fixed in 18.5
iPadOS Fixed in 18.5 17.7.7
macOS Fixed in 15.5 14.7.6 13.7.6

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