CVE-2026-66046Expat Denial of Service via storeAtts() Quadratic Complexity
Beschreibung
Expat through 2.8.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability caused by quadratic algorithmic complexity in the storeAtts() function in xmlparse.c, where processing N specified attributes with non-normalized values triggers an O(N^2) linear scan of elementType->defaultAtts to determine CDATA status. A remote unauthenticated attacker can supply a single well-formed XML document of a few megabytes to an application parsing untrusted XML to cause excessive CPU consumption, resulting in denial of service without requiring authentication, external entity resolution, or non-default parser options.
Daten: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Wiedergegeben wie in der Quelle, auf Englisch.
Betroffene Produkte und Versionen
Referenzen und Patches
- Pull Request issue-trackingpatchExploitPatch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/expat-denial-of-service-via-storeatts-quadratic-complexity third-party-advisoryExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html
CPE-Treffer (NVD) (1)
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≤ 2.8.3