CVE-2025-9714: exploitation status and patch state
CVE-2025-9714 · CVSS 6.2 MEDIUM · EPSS <1%
Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.
Is CVE-2025-9714 exploited?
Not in the CISA KEV catalog.
EPSS puts exploitation in the next 30 days at <1%.
Public exploit code: none found in monitored sources.