AZL-103316

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Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-103316.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-103316
Upstream
Published
2026-09-19T23:17:10Z
Modified
2026-09-20T14:16:31Z
Summary
CVE-2026-93990 affecting package expat 2.8.3-2
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/expat

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
2.8.3-2

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-103316.json"