CVE-2025-24855

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Mar 14, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jan 26, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libxsltxmlsoft	before 1.1.43Affected

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00015.html

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