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CVE-2024-50602VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

Affects Red Hat expatSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 17:00 UTC

Severity
Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 Nov 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated expat packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 that address this vulnerability. Users should apply the provided security update as detailed in Red Hat's advisory and article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the issue. No additional mitigation steps are specified or required beyond applying the official update.

Description

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the libexpat XML parsing library via the XML_ResumeParser function. This issue affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 across multiple architectures. The vulnerability has been rated as moderate severity by Red Hat Product Security. An update addressing this issue is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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