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CVE-2026-124317

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.8 Published: 2026-11-07 Modified: 2026-11-07

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-126

References