CVE-2026-76641

Description

Expat through 2.8.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger memory corruption by processing XML with external entity parsers created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate. A struct size mismatch between ELEMENT_TYPE members causes storeAtts to read the attIndex member past allocated memory boundaries, resulting in failure to normalize whitespace in non-CDATA attributes or a wild pointer dereference causing a segfault. This vulnerability was introduced by the fix for CVE-2026-66046.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/expat-out-of-bounds-read-via-dtdcopy

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1331

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/98599f6dcc2b460410881fe420f5f55d6bec63bf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

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