A flaw was found in the libxml2 library. This uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability occurs when processing XML catalogs that contain repeated <nextCatalog> elements pointing to the same downstream catalog. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying crafted catalogs, causing the parser to redundantly traverse catalog chains. This leads to excessive CPU consumption and degrades application availability, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
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"sources": [
{
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-0992",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Analyzed"
},
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0992",
"published": "2026-01-15T15:15:52.657Z",
"modified": "2026-06-30T20:17:25.733Z",
"imported": "2026-08-09T06:30:35.846Z",
"id": "CVE-2026-0992"
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"license": "CC-BY-4.0"
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