CVE-2024-25062: Xmlsoft LIBXML2

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.

Affected products

• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: before 2.11.7 (fixed in 2.11.7); from 2.12.0, before 2.12.5 (fixed in 2.12.5)

Published 2024-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.