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CVE-2025-9714

Stack overflow in libxml2

CVSS 6.2 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-674
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 6.2EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
10 Sep 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
libxml2 · libxml2

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