fkie_cve-2025-59375
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-09-15 03:15
Modified
2025-10-17 19:26
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/676a4c531ec768732fac215da9730b5f50fbd2bf/expat/Changes#L45-L74Product
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_7_2/expat/ChangesProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/1018Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1034Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/439133977Exploit, Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libexpat_project libexpat *


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  "lastModified": "2025-10-17T19:26:36.673",
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          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
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