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CVE-2025-8732

Published: Aug 8, 2025

Modified: Jun 2, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

3.3

LOW

Description

A vulnerability was found in libxml2 up to 2.14.5. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function xmlParseSGMLCatalog of the component xmlcatalog. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled recursion. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The code maintainer explains, that "[t]he issue can only be triggered with untrusted SGML catalogs and it makes absolutely no sense to use untrusted catalogs. I also doubt that anyone is still using SGML catalogs at all."

VendorProductVersions

n/a

libxml2

affected
2.14.0
affected
2.14.1
affected
2.14.2
affected
2.14.3
affected
2.14.4

+1 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-674
CWE-404

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

VDB-319228 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)
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