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Alpine: multiple libxml2 packages, multiple py3-libxml2 packages: security update to 2.12.5-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424082

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader
 interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to
 an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free. (CVE-2024-25062)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-25062

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424082

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.49

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25062

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25062

IAVA: 2024-A-0067-S