Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-7424

High

Published: 10 July 2025

Published
10 July 2025
Modified
27 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-7424 is a high-severity Type Confusion (CWE-843) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 40.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in the libxslt library. The same memory field, psvi, is used for both stylesheet and input data, which can lead to type confusion during XML transformations. This vulnerability allows an attacker to crash the application or…

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corrupt memory. In some cases, it may lead to denial of service or unexpected behavior.

CWE(s)
CWE-843

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

Type confusion in libxslt enables remote unauthenticated memory corruption, crashes, DoS, or RCE via crafted XSLT, facilitating exploitation of public-facing applications or remote services and application-level endpoint DoS.

Affected Assets

xmlsoft
libxslt
all versions
redhat
openshift container platform
4.0
redhat
enterprise linux
10.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References