CVE-2026-93990

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

References

• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/ff6e1d7e750bbe245178f51a47a965dc8342861a
• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1282
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/expat-through-2.8.4-malformed-utf-16-acceptance-via-unchecked-surrogate