Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libxmljs package, versions >=0.8.0 <1.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-10557409
  • published27 Jun 2025
  • disclosed16 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2018

CVE-2016-9596  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libxmljs to version 1.0.0 or higher.

Overview

libxmljs is a libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1