CVE-2004-2159

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2004-2159 · Published 31/12/2004 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-2159 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting command line xml toolkit (xmlstarlet).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
command line xml toolkit xmlstarlet	`= 0.9.3`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit 0.9.3 have unknown impact and attack vectors via (1) xml_elem.c and (2) xml_select.c.

References

securitytracker.com/id · Patch
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch
osvdb.org/10074 · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/11270 · Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17580

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