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high · CVSS v3 7.5 · CVSS v4 8.7

CVE-2026-93990

Expat through 2.8.4 fails to validate low surrogates following high surrogates in UTF-16 input, allowing malformed UTF-1…

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.

Scores

Severity
high
CVSS v2
7.8
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4
8.7
EPSS

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