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CVE-2026-93990: Expat through 2.8.4 fails to validate low surrogates following high surrogates in UTF-16 input, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted. Attackers can craft UTF-16 encoded XML with lone high surrogates that co

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What it means

Priority 70/100

NIST National Vulnerability Database ha pubblicato CVE-2026-93990. La rilevanza va confermata rispetto alle tecnologie effettivamente in uso.

Why it matters

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Expat through 2.8.4 fails to validate low surrogates following high surrogates in UTF-16 input, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted. Attackers can craft UTF-16 encoded XML with lone high surrogates that consume following code units, hiding markup characters from the parser and enabling XML injection attacks.

Source
NIST National Vulnerability Database
Publishing entity
NIST National Vulnerability Database
Entity type
National authority
Area
North America · US
Original language
en · translation in preparation
Publication
20/09/2026 01:17
CVE
CVE-2026-93990
Classification
High
Stated country
US
Technical scope

Affected products and versions

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