๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-86141

LOW 2.9
CVSS Score
2.9
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

xmlregexp in libxml2 before 2.15.4 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlRegNewParserCtxt after a strdup failure, i.e., it does not calculate a string length after NULL checking.

CWE CWE-252
Vendor xmlsoft
Product libxml2
Published Sep 5, 2026
Last Updated Sep 9, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Affected Versions

xmlsoft / libxml2
0 < 2.15.4

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/compare/v2.15.3...v2.15.4 github.com: https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/e89a8aae4c9b40cdafcf66b3f9e57c62db37bb55 gitlab.gnome.org: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/work_items/1107