CVE-2025-24855 Affecting openjdk-21-openj9 package, versions <0.53.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-OPENJDK21OPENJ9-12175794
  • published24 Aug 2025
  • disclosed14 Mar 2025

Introduced: 14 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-24855  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard openjdk-21-openj9 to version 0.53.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openjdk-21-openj9 package and not the openjdk-21-openj9 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

CVSS Base Scores

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