CVE-2025-6170

ℹ️ low

Summary

A flaw was found in the interactive shell of the xmllint command-line tool, used for parsing XML files. When a user inputs an overly long command, the program does not check the input size properly, which can cause it to crash. This issue might allow attackers to run harmful code in rare configurations without modern protections.

CVSS Score

2.5

Low

EPSS Score

0.0

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2025-06-16

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 1.3% of all 329,456 vulnerabilities in our database.

#325,296

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 16, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Red Hat would like to thank Ahmed Lekssays for reporting this issue.

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-06-02

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-121

📦 Affected Products 8

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v10.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v6.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v7.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v8.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v9.0
xmlsoft	libxml2	Affected	v-
redhat	openshift_container_platform	Affected	v4.0
redhat	jboss_core_services	Affected	v-

🔗 References 6

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7519

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6170

Mitigation Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372952

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/941

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07...

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa...

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