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.
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| Summary | (en) 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. |
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Information
Published : 2026-09-19 23:17
Updated : 2026-09-28 17:17
NVD link : CVE-2026-93990
Mitre link : CVE-2026-93990
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-93990
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CWE
CWE-176
Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
