Description

xsltGetInheritedNsList in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free issue related to exclusion of result prefixes.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-55549

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

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

Affected Products

Vendor: xmlsoft

Product: libxslt

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 0.3% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-11 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55549
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/127

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