CVE-2016-3705

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.051 · 92 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.10% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

34 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-20USCWE-674US

affected products (34)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Dell NetWorker <19.11.0.2all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker <19.11.0.5all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker <19.13all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker Server <19.10.0.6all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker Server <19.11.0.2all versionscert_bundDE
F5 BIG-IP <12.1.2all versionscert_bundDE
F5 BIG-IP <13.0.0all versionscert_bundDE
Juniper Junos Space <20.1R1all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source libxml2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:xmlsoft:libxml2:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Dell Networker≤ Server <19.10.0.6cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ Server <19.11.0.2cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.11.0.2cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.11.0.5cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.13cert_bundDE
F5 BIG-IP< 12.1.2cert_bundDE

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1614Tenable Security Nessus Network Monitor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-06-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer, authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Tenable Security Nessus Network Monitor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand auszulösen und Daten zu manipulieren.
WID-SEC-W-2024-3386libxml2: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2016-03-21csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in libxml2 ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-05-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (54)

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