MEDIUMCVSS v3.1 5.9Vulnerability

CVE-2026-117610

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.

Properties

Severity
MEDIUM
Nvd fetched at
2026-10-28T03:35:08.633330+00:00
Cvss score
5.9
Cvss severity
MEDIUM
Retrieved at
2026-10-28T03:36:16+00:00
Score
5.9
Last source
NVD
Cvss version
3.1
Cve id
CVE-2026-117610
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
First seen by Signal
2026-10-28T03:36:16+00:00
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published at
2026-10-28T03:17:12.777
Last modified
2026-10-28T03:17:12.777

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