CVE-2026-118370

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 66/100
Published: 2026-10-28 Modified: 2026-10-28 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a signed integer overflow vulnerability in storeAtts() in lib/xmlparse.c that allows attackers to trigger out-of-bounds writes via oversized attribute counts. Attackers can supply a multi-gigabyte document with a start tag carrying over 2^30 attributes to overflow attIndex and nPrefixes, crashing applications or corrupting heap memory.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
libexpat libexpat 0

Bug Bounty Relevance

66 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.2 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.44%
Raw Score 0.004420
Percentile 38.4%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00442
2026-10-28
0.00442

Intelligence Sources

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