CVE-2026-76641

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

Expat through 2.8.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger memory corruption by processing XML with external entity parsers created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate. A struct size mismatch between ELEMENT_TYPE members causes storeAtts to read the attIndex member past allocated memory boundaries, resulting in failure to normalize whitespace in non-CDATA attributes or a wild pointer dereference causing a segfault. This vulnerability was introduced by the fix for CVE-2026-66046.

EPSS Score⁠: 0.00353 (0.271)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

Out-of-bounds Read


Alpine

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY
PackageTypeOS NameOS VersionAffected RangesFix Versions
alpine/expatapkalpine3.24<2.8.4-r02.8.4-r0
alpine/expatapkalpine3.22<2.8.4-r02.8.4-r0
alpine/expatapkalpine3.23<2.8.4-r02.8.4-r0
alpine/expatapkalpineedge<2.8.4-r02.8.4-r0

Severity and metrics

No CVSS data available from this advisory.

NIST

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

8.7high

Debian

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Alow

Ubuntu

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Amedium