CVE-2025-24928
7.7
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.24%
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-24928
To remediate CVE-2025-24928, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libxml2—upgrade to 2.11.8-r1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u6 or later
Is CVE-2025-24928 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 2.11.8-r1
- from 0, < 1.8.0, >= 1.9.0, < 8.0.461
- from 0, < 1.8.0, >= 1.9.0, < 8.0.461
- from 0, < 1.8.0, >= 1.9.0, < 8.0.461
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |