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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2016-9181 json

perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled.

published 2016-12-22 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9997

cvss
7.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial of service or, potentially, information disclosure.

Patch / fix

  • libimage-info-perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.39-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9181

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9181 updated cvss 7.1

perl-Image-Info: XXE in SVG files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl-Image-Info Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-Image-Info
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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