CVE-2026-117610

CVE-2026-117610CVE-2026-117610

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.

Scoring

CVSS 5.9 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Last modified2026-10-28
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.