Information Disclosure in Anjuta Document Manager Plugin by GNOME
CVE-2021-42522

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Gnome
Status
Gnome Anjuta
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 August 2022

What is CVE-2021-42522?

Anjuta Document Manager has a vulnerability due to improper handling of the libxml2 API, resulting in potential information disclosure. The failure to release allocated memory by not invoking 'g_free()' on the output returned by 'xmlGetProp()' poses risks of unintended information leakage. Users of Anjuta should apply necessary updates to mitigate the security implications of this vulnerability.

Affected Version(s)

GNOME anjuta anjuta - 2.0.0

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/anjuta/-/issues/12
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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