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    CVE-2026-72522

    libexpat before 2.8.3 has an out-of-bounds read and resultant infinite loop because low surrogates are treated the same as high surrogates during Unicode processing in the *_toUtf16 functions.

    Published:Aug 10, 2026
    Last Modified:Aug 13, 2026
    EPS:Aug 10, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00176
    CVSS Score:6.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Libexpat Project
    Product
    Libexpat

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-540 Overread Buffers

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