ALPINE-CVE-2026-115506
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-115506
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-115506.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-115506
- Upstream
- Published
- 2026-10-22T20:17:06Z
- Modified
- 2026-11-02T14:30:02Z
- Severity
-
- 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.21 / expat
Package
- Name
- expat
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/expat?arch=source
Alpine:v3.22 / expat
Package
- Name
- expat
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/expat?arch=source
Alpine:v3.23 / expat
Package
- Name
- expat
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/expat?arch=source