VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4520

medium
Published 2013-12-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

xslt.c in libxslt before 1.1.25 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a stylesheet that embeds a DTD, which causes a structure to be accessed as a different type. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2825.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xmlsoftlibxslt{"endIncluding":"1.1.24"}
xmlsoftlibxslt0.0.1
xmlsoftlibxslt0.1.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.2.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.3.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.4.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.5.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.6.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.7.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.8.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.9.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.10.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.11.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.12.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.13.0
xmlsoftlibxslt0.14.0
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.0
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.1
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.2
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.3
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.4
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.5
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.6
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.7
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.8
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.9
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.10
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.11
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.12
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.13
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.14
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.15
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.16
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.17
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.18
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.19
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.20
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.21
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.22
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.23
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.24
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.25
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.26
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.27
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.28
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.29
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.30
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.31
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.32
xmlsoftlibxslt1.0.33
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.0
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.1
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.2
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.3
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.4
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.5
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.6
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.7
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.8
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.9
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.10
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.11
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.12
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.13
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.14
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.15
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.16
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.17
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.18
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.19
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.20
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.21
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.22
xmlsoftlibxslt1.1.23

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.