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CVE-2025-6021VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2025-6021: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Out-of-bounds Write

Affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 to 2.14.4 soon.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 08:30 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 71% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 2.14.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 12 Jun 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade libxml2 to 2.14.4.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
libxml2Affected
  • <2.14.4
Fixed in
  • 2.14.4

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released official security updates for libxml2 that address CVE-2025-6021. Users should apply the updates as described in Red Hat advisories RHSA-2025:10630 and RHSA-2025:10698. The advisories provide detailed instructions for updating affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 10 systems. Applying these patches mitigates the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.

Description

A flaw was found in libxml2's xmlBuildQName function, where integer overflows in buffer size calculations can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. This issue can result in memory corruption or a denial of service when processing crafted input.

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