CVE-2025-24855 HIGH

CVE-2025-24855

Vendor Xmlsoft
Product libxslt
Weakness CWE-416
Published March 14, 2025
Last update February 26, 2026

CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 14, 2025 CVE published
February 26, 2026 Record updated