VYPR
High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 24, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-20843

CVE-2018-20843

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

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