THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-49794 (CRITICAL 9.1) — A use-after-free vulnerability was found in libxml2. This issue occurs when parsing XPath elements under certain circumstances when the XML schematron has the <sch:name path="..."/> schema elements. This flaw allows a malicious actor to craft a malicious XML document used as inpu
[NVD] CVE-2025-49794 (CRITICAL 9.1) — A use-after-free vulnerability was found in libxml2. This issue occurs when parsing XPath elements under certain circumstances when the XML schematron has the <sch:name path="..."/> schema elements. This flaw allows a malicious actor to craft a malicious XML document used as inpu
CVE-2025-49794 CVSS: 9.1 CRITICAL Published: 2025-06-16T16:15:18.997
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in libxml2. This issue occurs when parsing XPath elements under certain circumstances when the XML schematron has the <sch:name path="..."/> schema elements. This flaw allows a malicious actor to craft a malicious XML document used as input for libxml, resulting in the program's crash usi
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49794