CVE-2025-32414 (GCVE-0-2025-32414)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-08 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:53
VLAI
Summary
In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.
Severity
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-393 - Return of Wrong Status Code
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xmlsoft libxml2 Affected: 0 , < 2.13.8 (semver)
Affected: 2.14.0 , < 2.14.2 (semver)
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