CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-117610
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-28
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in externalEntityInitProcessor2() in lib/xmlparse.c that mishandles the XML_TOK_NONE token from empty input. Attackers who control stream chunking can force an empty non-final first parse on an external entity subparser, causing a later parse to crash the application.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat github.com
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/a76b1174c1ea52abb639a4c69d52b630a8a106a2/expat/lib/xmlparse.c#L3468-L3510 github.com
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/7b0d50e4b1d16fafd55876260701e04279a7489d github.com
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1444 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libexpat-through-2.9.0-null-pointer-dereference-via-external-entity-subparser www.vulncheck.com