CVE-2013-4520
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-4379)
- Published
- December 14, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-4379 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
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- xmlsoft / libxslt
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References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/238(Patch)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/239(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56072(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/99671
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849019(Exploit, Patch)
- https://gitorious.org/libxslt/libxslt/commit/7089a62b8f133b42a2981cf1f920a8b3fe9a8caa(Exploit, Patch)
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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