CVE-2025-24928

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Publication date:

18/02/2025

Last modified:

21/03/2025

Description

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-9047.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/847
https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/392687022
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0006/