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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