CVE-2025-32414

🔶 medium

Summary

In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.

CVSS Score

5.6

Medium

EPSS Score

0.2

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2025-04-08

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 32.7% of all 329,456 vulnerabilities in our database.

#221,882

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Apr 9, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

Poc

Proof-of-concept available

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2025-11-03

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-393 CWE-252

📦 Affected Products 2

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
xmlsoft	libxml2	Affected	< 2.13.8
xmlsoft	libxml2	Affected	≥ 2.14.0 < 2.14.2

🔗 References 2

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889

Exploit Issue Tracking Patch

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04...

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