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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-10557426
  • published27 Jun 2025
  • disclosed21 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-7595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libxmljs.

Overview

libxmljs is a libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

CVSS Base Scores

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