CVE-2025-9375 (GCVE-0-2025-9375)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-01 16:43 – Updated: 2026-04-20 21:45 Disputed
VLAI
Title
xmltodict 0.14.2 - XML Injection
Summary
XML Injection vulnerability in xmltodict allows Input Data Manipulation. This issue affects xmltodict: from 0.14.2 before 0.15.1. NOTE: the scope of this CVE is disputed by the vendor on the grounds that xmltodict.unparse() delegates element-name handling to Python's xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator, and that XMLGenerator should be the component performing validation.
Severity
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-11 15:16 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-91 - XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
xmltodict xmltodict Affected: 0.14.2 , < 0.15.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:xmltodict:xmltodict:*:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xmltodict:xmltodict:*:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xmltodict:xmltodict:*:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
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Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.