CVE-2026-72522

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
libexpat projectlibexpat0 < 2.8.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-125: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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