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Report · GCVE DatabaseAbout CVE-2025-24855Published Updated

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-24855· High 7.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High : upgrade to 9.2-10 soon.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS base score
7.8High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 29% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 9.2-10, 8.0.461, 1.8.0

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Mar 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 2026-10-25.

What to do

Upgrade redhat/libxslt to 9.2-10; jre to 8.0.461 or 1.8.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hatredhat/libxsltpkg:rpm/redhat/libxsltOther threatsAffected
  • =9.2
  • <9.2-10
Fixed in
  • 9.2-10
Bitnamijrepkg:bitnami/jreOther threatsAffected
  • <1.8.0
  • >=1.9.0 <8.0.461
Fixed in
  • 1.8.0
  • 8.0.461

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AI-suggested

A patch is available from Red Hat and other vendors to remediate this vulnerability. Users should apply the official security updates as provided in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:3107. Refer to the vendor's update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for detailed remediation steps.

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2025-24855) exists in libxslt before version 1.1.43, specifically in numbers.c during nested XPath evaluations. This vulnerability affects functions such as xsltNumberFormatGetValue and xsltEvalXPathPredicate. It is rated as high severity. A patch is available from Red Hat and other vendors to address this issue.

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