CVE-2019-20005: Ezxml Project Ezxml

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in ezXML 0.8.3 through 0.8.6. The function ezxml_decode, while parsing a crafted XML file, performs incorrect memory handling, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read while running strchr() starting with a pointer after a '\0' character (where the processing of a string was finished).

Affected products

• Ezxml Project Ezxml: from 0.8.3, up to and including 0.8.6

Published 2019-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.