CVE-2025-32414

April 9, 2025, 3:16 p.m.

5.6
Medium

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
libxml2
  • <2.13.8
libxml2
  • <2.14.2

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-393
Return of Wrong Status Code
A function or operation returns an incorrect return value or status code that does not indicate an error, but causes the product to modify its behavior based on the incorrect result.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889

Tags

cve@mitre.org
CWE-393
2025-04-08
CVE-2025-32414

CVSS Score

5.6 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

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Timeline

Published: April 8, 2025, 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: April 9, 2025, 3:16 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cve@mitre.org

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