A vulnerability was found in libxml2 up to 2.14.5. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function xmlParseSGMLCatalog of the component xmlcatalog. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled recursion. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The code maintainer explains, that "[t]he issue can only be triggered with untrusted SGML catalogs and it makes absolutely no sense to use untrusted catalogs. I also doubt that anyone is still using SGML catalogs at all."
History

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Gnome
Gnome libxml2
Vendors & Products Gnome
Gnome libxml2

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Low


Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description A vulnerability was found in libxml2 up to 2.14.5. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function xmlParseSGMLCatalog of the component xmlcatalog. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled recursion. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The code maintainer explains, that "[t]he issue can only be triggered with untrusted SGML catalogs and it makes absolutely no sense to use untrusted catalogs. I also doubt that anyone is still using SGML catalogs at all."
Title libxml2 xmlcatalog xmlParseSGMLCatalog recursion
Weaknesses CWE-404
CWE-674
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2025-08-08T16:32:06.990Z

Updated: 2025-08-08T17:12:15.735Z

Reserved: 2025-08-08T07:49:27.806Z

Link: CVE-2025-8732

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-08T17:12:12.366Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-08T17:15:30.583

Modified: 2025-08-08T20:30:18.180

Link: CVE-2025-8732

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-08-08T16:32:06Z

Links: CVE-2025-8732 - Bugzilla