CVE-2026-124317
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XML External Entity Processing in libexpat
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-124317, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-07
Last updated on: 2026-11-07
Assigner: VulnCheck
Description
Description
libexpat through 2.10.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in unknown_toUtf8() and unknown_toUtf16() in xmltok.c when handling application-registered unknown encodings. Attackers can supply a document ending in a truncated multibyte sequence so the convert callback reads past the parse buffer, leaking adjacent memory or crashing applications.
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-126 | The product reads from a buffer using buffer access mechanisms such as indexes or pointers that reference memory locations after the targeted buffer. |
