CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-23990

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
3.99%

90th percentile - higher than 90% of all known CVEs

Summary

Expat (libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function. This may lead to improper XML parser behavior.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could be exploited for denial of service or potentially code execution in the context of an application processing untrusted XML data.

Recommendation

Update Expat to version 2.4.4 or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS