CVE-2026-56405 (GCVE-0-2026-56405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-21 15:47 – Updated: 2026-06-22 17:03
VLAI
Summary
libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in getAttributeId.
Severity
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libexpat project libexpat Affected: 0 , < 2.8.2 (semver)
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