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CVE-2024-25062

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-416 Use After Free
Publication date:
04/02/2024
Last modified:
09/05/2025

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.11.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.12.0 (including) 2.12.5 (excluding)

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