🛡️ CVE-2026-56410 — libexpat

🟡 CVSS 6.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-190 NVD
6.9
CVSS Score
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Description

xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow in resolveSystemId.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-56410 is classified as CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Arithmetic produces a value too large for its type and wraps around, so a later size or bounds check passes when it should not.

Affected software

CVE-2026-56410 is recorded against 1 package.

  • libexpat (fixed in 2.8.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 June 2026 and last revised on 23 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-21
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-23

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libexpat 2.8.2

References

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