CVE-2026-72522

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 8 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.19% (8th) EPSS

CVSS 6.2 · medium

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-21

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · cve@mitre.org USexploitability 2.5 · impact 3.6

v3.15.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-125US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
IBM AIX 7.3all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:ibm:aix:7.3
IBM VIOS 4.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:vios:4.1
OpenBSD OpenBSD 7.8all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:openbsd:openbsd:7.8
OpenBSD OpenBSD 7.9all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:openbsd:openbsd:7.9
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Open Source expat< 2.8.3cert_bundDE
libexpat project libexpat0 → 2.8.3enisa_euvdEU

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2718expat: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2026-08-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in expat ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2026-3642Meinberg LANTIME: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-09-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Meinberg LANTIME ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Daten offenzulegen oder zu manipulieren, Denial-of-Service-Zustände herbeizuführen, sowie weitere, nicht näher spezifizierte Angriffe zu starten.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-08-10modified 2026-08-31

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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