CVE-2025-32414 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-32414

Vendor Xmlsoft
Product libxml2
Weakness CWE-393
Published April 8, 2025
Last update November 3, 2025

CVSS base score

5.6/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 8, 2025 CVE published
November 3, 2025 Record updated