Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-10672 json

Use-after-free in the XML-LibXML module through 2.0129 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by controlling the argume…

published 2017-06-29 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-2319

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.9%
EPSS 7.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free in the XML-LibXML module through 2.0129 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call.

Patch / fix

  • libxml-libxml-perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0128+dfsg-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10672

  • libxml-libxml-perl Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0108+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2
  • libxml-libxml-perl Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.0123+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10672

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • perl-XML-LibXML SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA +2 more 1.66-3.3.1
  • perl-XML-LibXML SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 2.0019-6.3.5

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0170-1SUSE-SU-2018:0123-1

  • perl-xml-libxml Arch Linux 2.0130-1

arch linux advisories AVG-501

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-2017-10672 updated cvss 5.6

perl-XML-LibXML: Use-after-free by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 perl-XML-LibXML Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl-XML-LibXML Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-XML-LibXML
    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

7.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • rt.cpan.org https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122246 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.