Servers and applications
CVE-2025-9714
Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow…
- Severity
- Medium 5.5
- Published
- 10 Sept 2025
- Last changed
- 19 Oct 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 1 Nov 2026
- Fixed in
- 2.10.0
- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
libxml2Servers and applications · cpe:a:xmlsoft:libxml2 |
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