CVE-2026-88385

medium

Description

Mini-XML 4.0.5 contains a memory leak vulnerability in mxml_load_data() during malformed XML parsing. Specially crafted XML input can cause text nodes allocated by mxmlNewText() to become unlinked before a parse error transfers control to the cleanup path. These orphaned nodes are not released, resulting in a persistent memory leak on each parsing attempt. Repeated attacker-controlled requests can cause cumulative memory exhaustion and denial of service.

References

https://github.com/michaelrsweet/mxml/issues/356

https://github.com/michaelrsweet/mxml/commit/83ef80ae3c5413b73f501edb59ee74e31ce399d0

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-86274

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-10-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00254