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Fencer Vulns
low 2.9

CVE-2025-27113 json

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlPatMatch in...

published 2025-02-18 20 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-java-2025-27113 , BIT-java-min-2025-27113 , BIT-jre-2025-27113 , EUVD-2025-4763 , JLSEC-2025-88

cvss
2.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlPatMatch in pattern.c.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami java 1.8.0, 8.0.461
  • bitnami java-min 1.8.0, 8.0.461
  • bitnami jre 1.8.0, 8.0.461
  • julia XML2_jll 2.13.6+1
  • xmlsoft libxml2 2.12.10, 2.13.6
  • libxml2 Debian 12 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u2
  • libxml2 Debian 14, Debian 13 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-27113

  • libxml2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.9
  • libxml2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.6
  • libxml2 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu3.2
  • libxml2 Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm7
  • libxml2 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm7
  • libxml2 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27113

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libxml2 Linux Micro 6.1 2.11.6-slfo.1.1_2.1
  • libxml2 Linux Micro 6.0 2.11.6-5.1
  • libxml2 SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 2.9.7-150000.3.76.1
  • python-libxml2-python SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 2.9.7-150000.3.76.1
  • libxml2 SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 2.9.14-150400.5.38.1
  • libxml2-python SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 2.9.14-150400.5.38.1
  • libxml2 SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 +4 more 2.10.3-150500.5.23.1
  • libxml2-python SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP6 +5 more 2.10.3-150500.5.23.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20274-1SUSE-SU-2025:20177-1SUSE-SU-2025:0976-1SUSE-SU-2025:0748-1SUSE-SU-2025:0747-1SUSE-SU-2025:0746-1

  • libxml2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.13.6-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14830-1

  • libxml2 Alpine 3.19, Alpine 3.18 2.11.8-r2
  • libxml2 Alpine 3.20 2.12.7-r2
  • libxml2 Alpine 3.21 2.13.4-r5
  • libxml2 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 2.13.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-27113

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libxml2 CBL-Mariner 2.0 2.10.4-6
  • libxml2 Azure Linux 3.0 2.11.5-4

azure linux advisories AZL-56964AZL-57058

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-27113 updated cvss 3.1

libxml2: NULL Pointer Dereference in libxml2 xmlPatMatch

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libxml2, libxml2-python Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libxml2, libxml2-python
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libxml2, python3-libxml2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libxml2, python3-libxml2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 libxml2 Red Hat JBoss Core Services libxml2 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-core-bff-rhel9, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-maas-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-automl-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-mlflow-rhel9, +6 more
    under investigation
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9, rhoai/odh-maas-controller-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mlflow-operator-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-controller-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ogx-k8s-operator-rhel9, +14 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.gnome.org https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/861 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami java
<1.8.0
>=1.9.0, <8.0.461
1.8.0
8.0.461
bitnami java-min
<1.8.0
>=1.9.0, <8.0.461
1.8.0
8.0.461
bitnami jre
<1.8.0
>=1.9.0, <8.0.461
1.8.0
8.0.461
julia XML2_jll
<2.13.6+1
2.13.6+1

Affected products

  • xmlsoft libxml2

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Add extra CPE.