CVE-2026-115506

Public on 2026-10-22
Modified on 2026-10-26
Description
libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability because billion laughs protection in accountingDiffTolerated() in xmlparse.c detects entity amplification too late. Attackers can supply a moderately sized XML document with a large DTD and nested entity expansions to consume tens of seconds of CPU per parse.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core expat Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 expat Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2027 Preview expat Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Firefox Extra firefox Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 firefox Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2027 Preview firefox Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 xmlrpc-c Not Affected

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L