CVE-2025-71406

[CVE catalog]

Severity

High · CVSS 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Published

Jan 1, 2025, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Updated

Aug 25, 2026, 4:16:45 PM UTC

Source

[NVD] · [CVE record]

A flaw was found in Nokogiri, which bundles a vulnerable version of libxslt. This vulnerability involves a use-after-free condition that can be triggered by processing specially crafted Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). A remote attacker could exploit this to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to a denial of service or other impacts. nokogiri: libxslt: Nokogiri: Memory corruption via crafted XSLT This is an Important vulnerability. Red Hat products bundling Nokogiri versions prior to 1.18.4 are affected by use-after-free flaws in the integrated libxslt library. Processing specially crafted XSLT input could lead to memory corruption, potentially allowing for remote code execution or denial of service in applications that handle untrusted XSLT. The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.