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CVE-2026-72522

6.2 medium SSVC exploitation: none Deferred

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.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.2NVD modified 2026-10-23 20:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 3