CVE-2025-32414
libxml2 - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.03%
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-32414
To remediate CVE-2025-32414, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.11.8-r3 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u7 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u7 or later
Is CVE-2025-32414 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (6)
- from 0, < 2.11.8-r3
- from 0, < 1.8.0, >= 1.9.0, < 8.0.461
- from 0, < 1.8.0, >= 1.9.0, < 8.0.461
- from 0, < 1.8.0, >= 1.9.0, < 8.0.461
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u7
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |