CVE-2026-72522 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.2

Product Status

Vendor libexpat project
Product libexpat
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.8.3 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read CWE