CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-56171

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Feb 18, 2025Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

9.8CRITICALCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-56171 and is rated Critical severity with a CVSS score of 9.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

2.11.5-4
2.10.4-6

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS1.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2024-56171?

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.