CVE-2026-50219

Published June 4th, 2026

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CVSS v3

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

Description

libexpat before 2.8.2 lacks handler call depth tracking for calls to XML_GetBuffer, XML_Parse, XML_ParseBuffer, XML_ParserFree, or XML_ParserReset from within handlers in cases of a policy violation. Thus, a use-after-free can occur,

libexpat/libexpat

:herb: Fast streaming XML parser written in C99 with >90% test coverage; moved from SourceForge to GitHub

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