A vulnerability was found in xmlsoft libxml2 up to 2.12.9/2.13.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function xmlPatMatch of the file pattern.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-27113. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.