CVE-2026-86141

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-86141
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-05 05:17:13 UTC
Updated2026-09-15 19:37:41 UTC
Descriptionxmlregexp in libxml2 before 2.15.4 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlRegNewParserCtxt after a strdup failure, i.e., it does not calculate a string length after NULL checking.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 3.3 LOW from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS: 0.001160000 probability, percentile 0.018280000 (date 2026-09-15)

Problem Types: CWE-252 | CWE-252 CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary3.3LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
3.1[email protected]Secondary2.9LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
3.1CNACVSS2.9LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Xmlsoft Libxml2 affected 2.15.4 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/e89a8aae4c9b40cdafcf66b3f9e57c62db37bb55 [email protected] github.com Patch
github.com/GNOME/libxml2/compare/v2.15.3...v2.15.4 [email protected] github.com Release Notes
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/work_items/1107 [email protected] gitlab.gnome.org Vendor Advisory
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