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medium 5.9

CVE-2026-117610 json

libexpat through 2.9.0 NULL Pointer Dereference via External Entity Subparser

published 13d ago modified 4d ago also EUVD-2026-111545

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in externalEntityInitProcessor2() in lib/xmlparse.c that mishandles the XML_TOK_NONE token from empty input. Attackers who control stream chunking can force an empty non-final first parse on an external entity subparser, causing a later parse to crash the application.

Patch / fix

  • libexpat_project libexpat 2.10.0
  • expat Debian 14 2.10.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-117610

  • expat openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.10.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12396-1

  • expat Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 2.10.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-117610

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-117610 updated cvss 5.9

expat: expat: Denial of Service via NULL pointer dereference in external entity parsing

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 expat, compat-expat1, expat 2.7.3-1.el10_2.7
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 expat, firefox, expat 2.7.3-1.el10_2.7, firefox 140.17.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 expat, firefox, xmlrpc-c, mingw-expat, thunderbird, xmlrpc-c-c++, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 expat, firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird, expat 2.7.3-1.el10_2.7, firefox 140.17.0-1.el10_2, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 expat 2.7.3-1.el10_2.7, firefox 140.17.0-1.el10_2, thunderbird 140.17.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Hardened Images expat 2.7.3-1.el10_2.7 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4d ago

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • libexpat libexpat

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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