CVE-2025-32414: Xmlsoft LIBXML2

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: before 2.13.8 (fixed in 2.13.8); from 2.14.0, before 2.14.2 (fixed in 2.14.2)

Published 2025-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.