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CVE-2026-93990

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-09-19 Modified: 2026-09-19

Description

Expat through 2.8.4 fails to validate low surrogates following high surrogates in UTF-16 input, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted. Attackers can craft UTF-16 encoded XML with lone high surrogates that consume following code units, hiding markup characters from the parser and enabling XML injection attacks.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-176

References