PT-2026-121580

CVE-2026-115506

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Published

2026-10-22

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Updated

2026-10-22

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CVSS 3.1
7.5
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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