{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9596 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2016-9596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2016-9596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxml2, published on 16 Aug 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-9596 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-9596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxml2, published on 16 Aug 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9596 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Xmlsoft Libxml2. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9596/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-9596","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9596/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-9596","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-ch7x-55jf-9fgx"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"XML parsing library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service via crafted XML documents in libxml2 when running in recovery mode, affecting JBoss Core Services.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"jboss_core_services","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"libxml2","vendor":"xmlsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-400","name":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"}],"description":"libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-9596","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"xmlsoft:libxml2","products":["xmlsoft:libxml2"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in libxml2","id":"CVE-2016-9597"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in katello-debug","id":"CVE-2016-9595"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2018-08-16","related":[{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-9598","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-08-16"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service via crafted XML documents in libxml2 when running in recovery mode, affecting JBoss Core Services.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9596/"}