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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

SoftwareAffected versions
libxml2Servers and applications · cpe:a:xmlsoft:libxml2
  • Every version before 2.10.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9714
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9714