JLSEC-2025-73 Medium 6.5

A flaw was found in libxml2

JLSEC Published: Oct 17, 2025
Modified: Jul 17, 2026
Severity: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Packages: XML2_jll < 2.9.12+0
Upstream: CVE-2021-3541

A flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950515
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0007/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html