GHSA-r6r4-8m79-7vvvHighCVSS 7.5

Expat through 2.8.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger...

Published
August 20, 2026
Last Modified
August 20, 2026

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📋 Description

Expat through 2.8.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger memory corruption by processing XML with external entity parsers created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate. A struct size mismatch between ELEMENT_TYPE members causes storeAtts to read the attIndex member past allocated memory boundaries, resulting in failure to normalize whitespace in non-CDATA attributes or a wild pointer dereference causing a segfault. This vulnerability was introduced by the fix for CVE-2026-66046.

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