CVE-2026-72522

Published Aug 10, 2026

Last updated 11 days ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Received

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.2
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.5
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

cve@mitre.org
CWE-125

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