CVE-2025-9714 (GCVE-0-2025-9714)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-10 18:43 – Updated: 2026-05-12 12:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Stack overflow in libxml2
Summary
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.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-10 18:46 UTC
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
Impacted products
12 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| libxml2 | libxml2 |
Affected:
0 , < 2.10.0
(semver)
Affected: 0 , < 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.4ubuntu0.3 (dpkg) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu3.5 (dpkg) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.9 (dpkg) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+esm2 (dpkg) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm5 (dpkg) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm10 (dpkg) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm9 (dpkg) |
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.1
(custom)
|
guessed |
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