CVE-2025-6170: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the interactive shell of the xmllint command-line tool, used for parsing XML files. When a user inputs an overly long command, the program does not check the input size properly, which can cause it to crash. This issue might allow attackers to run harmful code in rare configurations without modern protections.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Core Services: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only
• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: affected versions not specified

Published 2025-06-16. Last modified 2026-10-09.