CVE-2026-115506
ADVISORY - nistSummary
libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability because billion laughs protection in accountingDiffTolerated() in xmlparse.c detects entity amplification too late. Attackers can supply a moderately sized XML document with a large DTD and nested entity expansions to consume tens of seconds of CPU per parse.
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
ADVISORY - nist
Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
NIST
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2026-115506
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
3.9
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)
CVSS SCORE
8.7highDebian
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2026-115506
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
-
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-