CVE-2017-5969

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

2.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 84.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

4.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. 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.

Published

2017-04-11 16:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:18Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-02-12

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

a1ff1281e6d763d8c350e47cdd6097d90fb9568bc8ada10f3c450593b48ea248

• bugzilla.gnome.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519x_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170213 CVE-2017-5969: Null pointer derefence parsing xml file using libxml 2.9.4 (in recover mode)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161105 CVE request: Null pointer derefence parsing xml file using libxml 2.9.4 (in recover mode)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201711-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.securityfocus.com96188http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20220408 [SECURITY] [DLA 2972-1] libxml2 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST