CVE-2026-72522

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

Out-of-bounds Read


NIST

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

2.5

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

6.2medium

Debian

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY