CVE-2026-0992EPSS p38.1%

CVE-2026-0992CVE-2026-0992

redhat / hardened_images

Description

A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying crafted catalogs, causing the parser to redundantly traverse catalog chains. This leads to excessive CPU consumption and degrades application availability, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

Scoring

CVSS 2.9 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS0.46% probability of exploitation · percentile 38.1% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-09-01
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