CVE-2025-32414

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-393

Description

In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.

Affected products

xmlsoft libxml2: before 2.13.8; from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2 — fixed in 2.13.8, 2.14.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xmlsoft libxml2 2.13.8, 2.14.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00041.html
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889

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