CVE-2024-55549 (GCVE-0-2024-55549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:48
VLAI
Summary
xsltGetInheritedNsList in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free issue related to exclusion of result prefixes.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xmlsoft libxslt Affected: 0 , < 1.1.43 (semver)
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