VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2025-6496

low
Published 2025-06-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v2
1.7
VIR risk
3.3

Description

A vulnerability was found in HTACG tidy-html5 5.8.0. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function InsertNodeAsParent of the file src/parser.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
34%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-6496

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-404 CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.