Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxml2 package, versions [,2.13.8)[2.14.0,2.14.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXML2-9789082
  • published22 Apr 2025
  • disclosed21 Apr 2025
  • creditMaks Verver

Introduced: 21 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2025-32414  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libxml2 to version 2.13.8, 2.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the xmlPythonFileRead() function in libxml.c, which exposes the application to a potentially exploitable crash, when parsing inputs involving malformed character encoding data.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1