CVE-2026-86140

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86140
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-86140.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-86140
Downstream
Published
2026-09-05T04:26:13.860Z
Modified
2026-09-06T08:01:50.236985Z
Severity
  • 8.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In libxml2 before 2.15.4, xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c has a strcat stack-based buffer overflow.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-121"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "2.15.4"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "2.15.4"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "libxml2"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2.15.4"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/86xxx/CVE-2026-86140.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gnome/libxml2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnome/libxml2
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d1686f91dbda141a752200419d35639fd6b38340
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

Other
CVE-2013-2877
CVE-2014-0191
CVE-2014-3660
CVE-2015-1819
CVE-2015-5312
CVE-2015-7497
CVE-2015-7498
CVE-2015-7499-1
CVE-2015-7499-2
CVE-2015-7500
CVE-2015-7941_1
CVE-2015-7941_2
CVE-2015-7942
CVE-2015-7942-2
CVE-2015-8035
CVE-2015-8242
CVE-2015-8317
CVE-2016-1762
CVE-2016-1833
CVE-2016-1834
CVE-2016-1835
CVE-2016-1836
CVE-2016-1837
CVE-2016-1838
CVE-2016-1839
CVE-2016-1840
CVE-2016-3627
CVE-2016-3705
CVE-2016-4449
CVE-2016-4483
CVE-2021-3541
EAZEL-NAUTILUS-MS-AUG07
FOR_GNOME_0_99_1
GNOME_0_30
GNOME_PRINT_0_24
GNUMERIC_FIRST_PUBLIC_RELEASE
LIBXML2_2_4_21
LIBXML2_2_5_0
LIBXML2_2_5_10
LIBXML2_2_5_7
LIBXML2_2_5_8
LIBXML2_2_5_9
LIBXML2_2_5_x
LIBXML2_2_6_1
LIBXML2_2_6_11
LIBXML2_2_6_12
LIBXML2_2_6_13
LIBXML2_2_6_14
LIBXML2_2_6_15
LIBXML2_2_6_16
LIBXML2_2_6_18
LIBXML2_2_6_19
LIBXML2_2_6_2
LIBXML2_2_6_20
LIBXML2_2_6_21
LIBXML2_2_6_22
LIBXML2_2_6_23
LIBXML2_2_6_24
LIBXML2_2_6_26
LIBXML2_2_6_27
LIBXML2_2_6_28
LIBXML2_2_6_3
LIBXML2_2_6_4
LIBXML2_2_6_5
LIBXML2_2_6_6
LIBXML2_2_6_7
LIBXML2_2_6_8
LIBXML2_2_6_9
LIBXML2_6_0
LIBXML_0_99
LIBXML_1_5_0
LIBXML_1_8_5
LIBXML_1_8_6
LIBXML_2_0_0
LIBXML_2_1_0
LIBXML_2_1_1
LIBXML_2_2_1
LIBXML_2_2_3
LIBXML_2_2_4
LIBXML_2_2_6
LIBXML_2_2_7
LIBXML_2_2_8
LIBXML_2_3_0
LIBXML_2_3_10
LIBXML_2_3_11
LIBXML_2_3_12
LIBXML_2_3_13
LIBXML_2_3_14
LIBXML_2_3_2
LIBXML_2_3_3
LIBXML_2_3_4
LIBXML_2_3_5
LIBXML_2_3_6
LIBXML_2_3_7
LIBXML_2_3_8
LIBXML_2_3_9
LIBXML_2_4_0
LIBXML_2_4_11
LIBXML_2_4_12
LIBXML_2_4_13
LIBXML_2_4_14
LIBXML_2_4_16
LIBXML_2_4_18
LIBXML_2_4_2
LIBXML_2_4_20
LIBXML_2_4_22
LIBXML_2_4_23
LIBXML_2_4_24
LIBXML_2_4_25
LIBXML_2_4_26
LIBXML_2_4_27
LIBXML_2_4_29
LIBXML_2_4_3
LIBXML_2_4_30
LIBXML_2_4_4
LIBXML_2_4_6
LIBXML_2_4_7
LIBXML_2_5_1
LIBXML_2_5_2
LIBXML_2_5_3
LIBXML_2_5_4
LIBXML_2_5_5
LIBXML_2_5_6
LIBXML_2_6_10
LIBXML_TEST_2_0_0
LIB_XML_1_1
LIB_XML_1_3
LIB_XML_1_4
LIB_XML_1_6_1
LIB_XML_1_6_2
LIB_XML_1_7_0
LIB_XML_1_7_1
LIB_XML_1_7_3
LIB_XML_1_8_3
LIB_XML_1_X
PRE_MUCKUP
PRE_MUCKUP2
PRE_MUCKUP3
help
LIBXML2.*
LIBXML2.6.32
LIBXML2.7.0
LIBXML2.7.1
LIBXML2.7.2
LIBXML2.7.3
v2.*
v2.10.0
v2.11.0
v2.12.0
v2.13.0
v2.14.0
v2.15.0
v2.15.1
v2.15.2
v2.15.3
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v2.7.5
v2.7.6
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v2.9.10-rc1
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v2.9.5-rc1
v2.9.5-rc2
v2.9.6
v2.9.6-rc1
v2.9.7
v2.9.7-rc1
v2.9.8
v2.9.8-rc1
v2.9.9
v2.9.9-rc1
v2.9.9-rc2

Database specific

vanir_signatures 
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        "target": {
            "file": "valid.c",
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        },
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        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/gnome/libxml2/commit/d1686f91dbda141a752200419d35639fd6b38340"
    },
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    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-86140.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-09-06T08:01:50Z"