CVE-2026-117610Published

libexpat through 2.9.0 NULL Pointer Dereference via External Entity Subparser

Exact source revision recorded 28 Oct 2026 03:51:21 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.

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cve-program · CVE-2026-117610

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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.

Source published: 28 Oct 2026 02:03:18 UTC
Source modified: 28 Oct 2026 02:03:18 UTC
Observed here: 28 Oct 2026 03:51:21 UTC
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CVSS 4.0 · 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H