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CVE-2026-117610VulnerabilityPublished Updated

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-117610· High 8.2

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 05:29 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.2High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 4.08.2
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 3.15.9
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 28 Oct 2026

  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 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
libexpatlibexpatAffected
  • <=2.9.0
Fixed in–
GitHublibexpatpkg:github/libexpatOther threatsAffected
  • <=2.9.0
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

Apply the Red Hat security update that includes expat-2.9.0-1.2.hum1 RPMs. Avoid enabling external entity or DTD processing for untrusted XML inputs. Do not expose stream-chunked XML parse APIs to untrusted clients. Restrict network access to XML-processing services. Red Hat has released a security advisory with updated packages to fix this vulnerability.

Description

A vulnerability in the expat XML parsing library allows a remote attacker who controls input stream chunking to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by forcing an empty initial parse on an external entity subparser. This results in a denial of service (application crash). The vulnerability requires uncommon stream-chunking behavior and external entity parsing, which is not the default for most Red Hat Enterprise Linux XML consumers. No confidentiality or integrity impact is demonstrated.

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