CVE-2015-5523
The ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving multiple whitespace characters before an empty href, which
02 Description
The ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving multiple whitespace characters before an empty href, which
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.84% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-08-11 14:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 06:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-07-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9707f78b874152e02aa0f47f5e3f75529c44d045bed4e6287a44bdfbd01dfd01
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1033703http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150713 Re: CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/7
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT205212
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150604 CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/2
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2695-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2695-1
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT205267
- www.debian.orgDSA-3309http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3309
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/217#issuecomment-108565501
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT205213
- www.securityfocus.com75037http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75037
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2015-09-16-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150714 Re: CVE Request - tidy 0.99 / tidy5 heap-buffer-overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/15/3
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- tidy Fixed in 20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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