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CVE-2026-128241

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.4 Published: 2026-11-13 Modified: 2026-11-13

Description

The xmlwf tool in libexpat through 2.10.0 contains a symlink following vulnerability because -d output mode opens files with fopen("wb"), which follows symbolic links. Local attackers with write access to the output directory can plant a symlink at the expected output name to truncate or overwrite files writable by the xmlwf user.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References