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Expat CVE-2025-59375

HIGH
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770)
2025-09-15 cve@mitre.org
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative
Red Hat
5.3 HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Patch released
Apr 06, 2026 - 20:30 nvd
Patch available
Analysis Generated
Mar 28, 2026 - 19:12 vuln.today
PoC Detected
Nov 04, 2025 - 22:16 vuln.today
Public exploit code
CVE Published
Sep 15, 2025 - 03:15 nvd
HIGH 7.5

DescriptionCVE.org

libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing.

AnalysisAI

libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified as Allocation of Resources Without Limits (CWE-770), which allows attackers to exhaust system resources through uncontrolled allocation. libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing. Affected products include: Libexpat Project Libexpat. Version information: before 2.7.2.

RemediationAI

No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Set resource limits, implement rate limiting, validate input sizes.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: High
Product Status
Container bci/kiwi:latest Container private-registry/harbor-portal:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-trivy-adapter:1.1.0-1.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-httpd:5.1.1.8.9.2 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-salt-broker:5.1.1.9.7.2 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-squid:5.1.2.8.13.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-ssh:5.1.1.8.7.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-tftpd:5.1.1.8.7.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-hub-xmlrpc-api:5.1.1.8.7.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-migration-14-16:5.1.1.8.7.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-saline:5.1.2.9.13.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server:5.1.1.8.7.1 Image SLES15-SP7-Azure-3P Image SLES15-SP7-Azure-Basic Image SLES15-SP7-Azure-Standard Image SLES15-SP7-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP7-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP7-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP7-EC2 Image SLES15-SP7-EC2-ECS-HVM Image SLES15-SP7-GCE Image SLES15-SP7-GCE-3P Image SLES15-SP7-HPC-Azure Image SLES15-SP7-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP7-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP7-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP7-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP7-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP7-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image pr_15_7 Image proxy-httpd-image Image proxy-salt-broker-image Image proxy-squid-image Image proxy-ssh-image Image proxy-tftpd-image Image server-database-migration-image Image server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image Image server-image Image server-migration-14-16-image Image server-saline-image Affected
Container bci/spack:0.23.1-11.66 Container containers/lmcache-lmstack-router:0.1.6-2.11 Container containers/open-webui-mcpo:0.0.17-1.1 Container containers/open-webui-pipelines:0.20250819.030501-7.7 Container containers/open-webui:0.6.18-12.30 Container containers/pytorch:2.8.0-nvidia-3.6 Container containers/vllm-openai:0.9.1-3.40 Container private-registry/harbor-nginx:1.21.5-2.53 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-httpd:4.3.16.9.67.29 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-salt-broker:4.3.16.9.57.31 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-ssh:4.3.16.9.57.24 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-tftpd:4.3.16.9.57.24 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-httpd:5.0.5.1.7.26.2 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-salt-broker:5.0.5.1.7.28.2 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-ssh:5.0.5.1.7.26.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-tftpd:5.0.5.1.7.26.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-hub-xmlrpc-api:5.0.5.1.6.26.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-migration-14-16:5.0.5.1.7.26.2 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.5.1.7.33.2 Container suse/mariadb:10.11.14-75.1 Container suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.3:latest Container suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.4:5.4.4.5.71 Container suse/sle-micro/5.3/toolbox:14.2-6.11.195 Container suse/sle-micro/5.4/toolbox:14.2-5.19.195 Container suse/sle-micro/5.5/toolbox:14.2-3.12.103 Container suse/sle-micro/5.5:2.0.4-5.5.385 Container suse/sle-micro/base-5.5:2.0.4-5.8.213 Container suse/sle-micro/kvm-5.5:2.0.4-3.5.407 Container suse/sle-micro/rt-5.5:2.0.4-4.5.507 Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Azure-3P Image SLES15-SP5-Azure-Basic Image SLES15-SP5-Azure-Standard Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP5-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0 Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-Azure-llc Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-Azure-ltd Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-EC2-llc Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-EC2-ltd Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5 Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-GCE Image SLES15-SP6 Image SLES15-SP6-Azure-3P Image SLES15-SP6-Azure-Basic Image SLES15-SP6-Azure-Standard Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP6-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-EC2-ECS-HVM Image SLES15-SP6-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-HPC Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image ai_15_6 Affected
Container suse/ltss/sle12.5/sles12sp5:8.5.142 Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container:2.1.3-6.94 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container:2.1.3-7.59 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container:2.1.3-6.82 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/rt-os-container:2.1.3-7.94 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/toolbox:13.2-9.40 Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/baremetal-os-container:2.2.1-7.20 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/base-os-container:2.2.1-5.43 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/kvm-os-container:2.2.1-5.45 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/rt-os-container:2.2.1-5.33 Affected

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