CVE-2026-72522MediumCVSS 6.2

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.

Published
August 14, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-72522 →

🎯 Affected products1

  • azl3 expat 2.8.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0

✅ Remediation

KBCBL-Mariner Releases (Security Update) — fixed build 2.8.3-1

🔗 References (2)