VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-56171

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.18%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-02-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.

Weakness classification

  • cve@mitre.org: CWE-416

Primary references