CVE-2025-24928

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.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0006/

https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/392687022

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/847

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-02-18

Updated: 2025-10-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.7

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00007