VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2026-72522
CVSS score6.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.19%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-10
Last modified2026-10-24
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- cve@mitre.org: CWE-125