CVE-2012-6139 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libxslt versions prior to 1.1.28, affecting products like opensuse libxslt and xmlsoft libxslt. Attackers can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash by providing an empty match attribute in an XSL key or an uninitialized variable to specific functions. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxslt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxslt:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxslt:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxslt:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxslt:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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