Medium 5.9Published Oct 27, 2026

CVE-2026-117610libexpat through 2.9.0 NULL Pointer Dereference via External Entity Subparser

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 29, 2026, 5:00 AM ET)

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libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in externalEntityInitProcessor2() in lib/xmlparse.c that mishandles the XML_TOK_NONE token from empty input. Attackers who control stream chunking can force an empty non-final first parse on an external entity subparser, causing a later parse to crash the application.

CVSS: 5.9 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Oct 27, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 27, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

libexpat libexpat libexpat:libexpat (from the name)	through 2.9.0	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1444	patch, issue-tracking
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/7b0d50e4b1d16fafd55876260701e04279a7489d	patch
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/a76b1174c1ea52abb639a4c69d52b630a8a106a2/expat/lib/xmlparse.c#L3468-L3510	technical-description
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat	product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libexpat-through-2.9.0-null-pointer-dereference-via-external-entity-subparser	third-party-advisory

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