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ghsa-vjqp-pjp6-xcxx

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-09-15 03:32

Modified

2025-09-17 15:30

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing.

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  "modified": "2025-09-17T15:30:26Z",
  "published": "2025-09-15T03:32:33Z",
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CVE-2025-59375 (GCVE-0-2025-59375)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-15 00:00

Modified

2025-09-17 13:21

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:H/RL:T/RC:C

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/1018
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1034
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/676a4c531ec768732fac215da9730b5f50fbd2bf/expat/Changes#L45-L74
	https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/439133977
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_7_2/expat/Changes

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	libexpat project	libexpat	Version: 0 ≤

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