Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxmljs package, versions >=0.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-10557438
  • published27 Jun 2025
  • disclosed4 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-24977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libxmljs.

Overview

libxmljs is a libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

CVSS Base Scores

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