Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2026

CVE-2026-72522

Description

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.

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Affected products

Libexpat Project/Libexpatllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.8.3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1296nvd

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