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CVE-2011-2821

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2821 describes a double free vulnerability in libxml2, affecting products like Google Chrome (prior to version 13.0.782.215), Apple, Debian, and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts through a specially crafted XPath expression. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 13.0.782.215CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0199 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mingw32-libxml2-0:2.7.6-6.el6_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2821Low

libxml2: double free caused by malformed XPath expression in XSLT

Aug 22, 2011

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2011/08/stable-channel-update_22.html
h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13840
support.apple.com / kb/HT5281
support.apple.com / kb/HT5503
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2394
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html