A flaw was found in the interactive shell of the xmllint command-line tool, used for parsing XML files.
CVE-2025-6170
A flaw was found in the interactive shell of the xmllint command-line tool, used for parsing XML files. When a user inputs an overly long command, the program does not check the input size properly, which can cause it to crash. This issue might allow attackers to run harmful code in rare configurations without modern protections.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 2.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Low
- EPSS
- 0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 16 June 2025
- Last updated
- 2 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17 · Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18 · Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.20 · Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
At the source
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36734
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39304
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39317
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:44481
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46836
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53371
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58981
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70596
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70639
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72394
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72395
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72399
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