CVE-2025-9714 (GCVE-0-2025-9714)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-10 18:43 – Updated: 2026-05-12 12:02
VLAI
Title
Stack overflow in libxml2
Summary
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 for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-10 18:46 UTC
CWE
Assigner
canonical CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 58 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
libxml2 libxml2 Affected: 0 , < 2.10.0 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.4ubuntu0.3 (dpkg)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu3.5 (dpkg)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.9 (dpkg)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10+esm2 (dpkg)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm5 (dpkg)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm10 (dpkg)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm9 (dpkg)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.1 (custom)
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Credits
Nikita Sveshnikov (Positive Technologies)
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