CVE-2026-72522EPSS p7.9%

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
EPSS0.19% probability of exploitation · percentile 7.9% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-08-31
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.