CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72522
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
libexpat before 2.8.3 has an out-of-bounds read and resultant infinite loop because low surrogates are treated the same as high surrogates during Unicode processing in the *_toUtf16 functions.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2053153 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1296 github.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/11/5 www.openwall.com