CVE-2025-8732 Information

Aug 09, 2025 cve

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.\

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1woIeYVcSQB_NwfEhaVnX6MedpWJ_nqWl/view?usp=drive_link https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/958 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/958#note_2505853 https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319228 https://vuldb.com/?id.319228 https://vuldb.com/?submit.622285

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

3.3

CNNVD-202508-766 (Published: 2025-08-08)

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