CVE-2024-56171 Use after free in libxml2

What is CVE-2024-56171?

CVE-2024-56171 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, published on 18 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56171?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including java, java-min and jre. It affects 11 products.

Products include Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp H300s Firmware, Netapp H410c Firmware, Netapp H410s Firmware, Netapp H500s Firmware, Netapp H700s Firmware and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-56171?

Upgrade java to a fixed version for your release line: 1.8.0 or 8.0.461.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2024-56171 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56171 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager

• CVE-2022-31692 Spring Security authorization rules can be bypassed via forward or include dispatcher types Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-2526 Use after free in systemd-resolved Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-22978 Authorization bypass in Spring Security Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22931 Code injection in Node Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-2938 Code injection in Java Critical 9.0

All Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2024-56171, AZL-56925, AZL-57010, BELL-CVE-2024-56171, BIT-java-2024-56171, BIT-java-min-2024-56171 and 11 more.