NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libxmljs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.39% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-14723210
  • published28 Dec 2025
  • disclosed26 Dec 2025
  • credittal-lavi

Introduced: 26 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-25341  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 NULL Pointer Dereference in the parsing process of specially crafted XML documents when accessing the _ref property on entity_ref and entity_decl nodes. An attacker can cause a segmentation fault and disrupt service availability by submitting malicious XML input.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1