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CVE-2025-8732

libxml2 xmlcatalog xmlParseSGMLCatalog recursion

Published: 8/8/2025 Last updated: 6/2/2026 Reserved: 8/8/2025

A vulnerability was found in libxml2 up to 2.14.5. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function xmlParseSGMLCatalog of the component xmlcatalog. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled recursion. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The code maintainer explains, that "[t]he issue can only be triggered with untrusted SGML catalogs and it makes absolutely no sense to use untrusted catalogs. I also doubt that anyone is still using SGML catalogs at all."

CNA assigner: VulDB (1af790b2-7ee1-4545-860a-a788eba489b5) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
4.0 1.9 Low CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
3.1 3.2 Low CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C
3.0 3.2 Low CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C
2.0 1.5 Low CVSS:2.0/AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:C

Opam packages affected (5)

bap-llvm conf-gtksourceview conf-gtksourceview3 conf-librsvg2 lablgtk3-gtkspell3

Products affected (2)

Product Vendor Version
libxml2 n/a All versions < V4.1.4
libxml2 n/a n/a

References (14)