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CVE-2025-24928

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CVE-2025-24928

Published: Feb 18, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

xmlsoft

libxml2

affected
0 - < 2.12.10
affected
2.13.0 - < 2.13.6

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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