Reachable assertion in tinyxml2 - CVE-2024-50615
Published: August 26, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU114426
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-50615
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion in UINT_MAX/digit within the XMLUtil::GetCharacterRef() function in tinyxml2.cpp. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
tinyxml2
openEuler
tinyxml2-devel
tinyxml2-debugsource
tinyxml2-debuginfo
tinyxml2
openEuler
tinyxml2-devel
tinyxml2-debugsource
tinyxml2-debuginfo
tinyxml2
How to mitigate CVE-2024-50615
Install updates from vendor's website.
tinyxml2 - update to 10.1.0
tinyxml2-devel - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2-debugsource - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2-debuginfo - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2 - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2-devel - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2-debugsource - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2-debuginfo - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2
tinyxml2 - addressed in versions 6.0.0-6, 9.0.0-2