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CVE-2024-40896

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

In libxml2 2.11 before 2.11.9, 2.12 before 2.12.9, and 2.13 before 2.13.3, the SAX parser can produce events for external entities even if custom SAX handlers try to override entity content (by setting "checked"). This makes classic XXE attacks possible.

Affected products

• NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Hci Compute Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire & Hci Storage Node: all versions
• xmlsoft libxml2: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.9; from 2.12.0 before 2.12.9; from 2.13.0 before 2.13.3 — fixed in 2.11.9, 2.12.9, 2.13.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xmlsoft libxml2 2.11.9, 2.12.9, 2.13.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/1a8932303969907f6572b1b6aac4081c56adb5c6
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/761
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250228-0004/

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