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CVE-2026-117610

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 76/100
Published: 2026-10-28 Modified: 2026-10-28 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
AT: Present
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
libexpat libexpat 0

References & Advisories (5)

Bug Bounty Relevance

76 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.2 / 10.0 v4.0
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

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.43%
Raw Score 0.004250
Percentile 36.8%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00425
2026-10-28
0.00425

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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