CVE-2025-24855

high

Description

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-03-14

Updated: 2025-03-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High