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CVE-2024-25062: 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...

Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-25062

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: n/a

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.11% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 31.16% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: true

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25062
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/604

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