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CVE-2026-93990

7.5 HIGHpublic exploit available

Published 2026-09-19 · Updated 2026-09-21

AI analysis for this CVE has not been generated yet. Raw NVD data is shown below.

NVD 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-176

Public exploit & PoC references

All references

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