CVE-2026-118370

CVE-2026-118370CVE-2026-118370

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.

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.