CVE-2026-72522EPSS p5.0%

CVE-2026-72522CVE-2026-72522

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.

Scoring

CVSS 6.2 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS0.15% probability of exploitation · percentile 5.0% · 2026-08-11T12:00:17Z
Last modified2026-08-11
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.