CVE-2026-124317

CVE-2026-124317CVE-2026-124317

Description

libexpat through 2.10.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in unknown_toUtf8() and unknown_toUtf16() in xmltok.c when handling application-registered unknown encodings. Attackers can supply a document ending in a truncated multibyte sequence so the convert callback reads past the parse buffer, leaking adjacent memory or crashing applications.

Scoring

CVSS 4.8 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Last modified2026-11-07
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.