CVE-2024-25062

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-02-04 · updated 2026-10-15
Weakness: CWE-416

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.

Affected products

xmlsoft libxml2: before 2.11.7; from 2.12.0 before 2.12.5 — fixed in 2.11.7, 2.12.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xmlsoft libxml2 2.11.7, 2.12.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/604
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/604
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00028.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0009/
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784301.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html

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