High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2026
CVE-2026-93990
CVE-2026-93990
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.
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