{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-09-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "libxml2: Buffer overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c",
    "id" : "1877788",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877788"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-20->CWE-125",
  "details" : [ "GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1597",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "libxml2-0:2.9.7-9.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1597",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "libxml2-0:2.9.7-9.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Core Services",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_core_services:1"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24977\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24977" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-24977",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}