CVE-2026-128241

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-128241
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-128241.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-128241
Downstream
Published
2026-11-13T09:33:46Z
Modified
2026-11-15T02:46:35Z
Severity
  • 4.1 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
libexpat xmlwf through 2.10.0 Symlink Following via -d Output Directory
Details

The xmlwf tool in libexpat through 2.10.0 contains a symlink following vulnerability because -d output mode opens files with fopen("wb"), which follows symbolic links. Local attackers with write access to the output directory can plant a symlink at the expected output name to truncate or overwrite files writable by the xmlwf user.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/128xxx/CVE-2026-128241.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libexpat/libexpat

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.10.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StandardRange"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.10.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
REC1_0
R_1_95_0
R_1_95_2
R_1_95_3
R_1_95_4
R_1_95_5
R_1_95_6
R_1_95_7
R_1_95_8
R_2_0_0
R_2_0_1
R_2_10_0
R_2_1_0
R_2_1_1
R_2_2_0
R_2_2_1
R_2_2_10
R_2_2_2
R_2_2_3
R_2_2_4
R_2_2_5
R_2_2_6
R_2_2_7
R_2_2_8
R_2_2_9
R_2_3_0
R_2_4_0
R_2_4_1
R_2_4_2
R_2_4_3
R_2_4_4
R_2_4_5
R_2_4_6
R_2_4_7
R_2_4_8
R_2_4_9
R_2_5_0
R_2_6_0
R_2_6_1
R_2_6_2
R_2_6_3
R_2_6_4
R_2_7_0
R_2_7_1
R_2_7_2
R_2_7_3
R_2_7_4
R_2_7_5
R_2_8_0
R_2_8_1
R_2_8_2
R_2_8_3
R_2_8_4
R_2_8_5
R_2_9_0
V1990307
V19981122
V19981231
V19990109
V19990425
V19990626
V19990709
V19990728
V19991013
V1_0
V1_1
V20000512
beta2
beta3
beta4
jclark-orig
libexpat-alpha-1
sourceforge_init
start

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-128241.json"