CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-34411

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.17%

63th percentile - higher than 63% of all known CVEs

Summary

The xml-rs crate before version 0.8.14 for Rust and Crab allows a denial of service (panic) via an invalid <! token in an XML document. The earliest affected version is 0.8.9.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may experience downtime in applications using this library, potentially leading to loss of service availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the xml-rs library to version 0.8.14 or newer to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The xml-rs crate before 0.8.14 for Rust and Crab allows a denial of service (panic) via an invalid <! token (such as <!DOCTYPEs/%<!A nesting) in an XML document. The earliest affected version is 0.8.9.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS