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🛡️ CVE-2026-45186 on Ubuntu — ayttm

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In libexpat before 2.8.1, the computational complexity of attribute name collision checks allows a denial of service via moderately sized crafted XML input.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-45186 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package ayttm. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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 none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45186 is classified as CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity. Crafted input drives an algorithm into its worst case, so a small request costs disproportionate work.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45186 is recorded against 16 packages.

  • ayttm
  • cableswig
  • cadaver
  • coin3
  • expat
  • gdcm
  • insighttoolkit4
  • libxmltok
  • matanza
  • smart
  • swish-e
  • tdom
  • vnc4
  • vtk
  • wbxml2
  • xmlrpc-c

Timeline and source

Published on 10 May 2026 and last revised on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)

Other advisories for this package

ayttm has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity) in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ayttm
cableswig
cadaver
coin3
expat
gdcm
insighttoolkit4
libxmltok
matanza
smart
swish-e
tdom
vnc4
vtk
wbxml2
xmlrpc-c

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