CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-25341

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.49%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability exists in libxmljs 1.0.11 when parsing a specially crafted XML document. Accessing the internal _ref property on entity_ref and entity_decl nodes causes a segmentation fault, potentially leading to a denial-of-service (DoS).

Risk Assessment

An attacker can provide a malicious XML document to crash the application and cause a denial of service.

Recommendation

Update libxmljs to a version containing the fix, or restrict processing of untrusted XML documents until the patch is applied.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability exists in the libxmljs 1.0.11 when parsing a specially crafted XML document. Accessing the internal _ref property on entity_ref and entity_decl nodes causes a segmentation fault, potentially leading to a denial-of-service (DoS).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS