What is CVE-2025-32414?

CVE-2025-32414 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxml2, classified under CWE-393. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2025-32414?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-32414 known to be exploited?

7 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxml2

CVE-2025-32414

In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a diffe…

EPSS: 0.000 (10.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Xmlsoft Libxml2 — versions 0, 2.14.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-393

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-32414?: CVE-2025-32414 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxml2, classified under CWE-393. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2025-32414?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-32414 known to be exploited?: 7 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.