CVE-2025-24855 (GCVE-0-2025-24855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-14 00:00 – Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09
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Summary
numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
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xmlsoft libxslt Affected: 0 , < 1.1.43 (semver)
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