# CVE-2025-24855

> CVE-2025-24855. CVSS 7.8 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24855
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:59:44Z

- Published: 2025-03-14 00:00 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:59 UTC · Assigner: mitre
- CVSS: 7.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.36%, 29th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-416

## Description

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

## Affected vendors and products

- xmlsoft: libxslt

## Tracked companies

- [GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24855)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24855)
- [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24855 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24855.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-24855 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:10:57.097Z