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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-93990 - debian/expat

Expat before 2.8.5 fails to validate that a high surrogate in UTF-16 input is followed by a low surrogate, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted. Attackers can supply UTF-16 encoded XML containing lone high surrogates that consume the following code unit, causing Expat to pass unpaired surrogates to applications built with XML_UNICODE and to silently replace input characters in other builds.

CVSS 7.5 (HIGH)

Evidence
  • imported from OSV Debian, untriaged
History
  • 2026-10-28: pending-human-approval - bulk import