CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-49794

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2025-06-16 Modified 2026-10-29 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-06-16
Last modified
2026-10-29
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-825

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in libxml2. This issue occurs when parsing XPath elements under certain circumstances when the XML schematron has the <sch:name path="..."/> schema elements. This flaw allows a malicious actor to craft a malicious XML document used as input for libxml, resulting in the program's crash using libxml or other possible undefined behaviors.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference weakness

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