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CVE-2026-86137

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-09-05 · updated 2026-09-15
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In libxml2 before 2.15.4, xmlFAParsePosCharGroup has an out-of-bounds read, aka an out-of-bounds read in the NXT macro in xmlregexp.

Affected products

• xmlsoft libxml2: before 2.15.4 — fixed in 2.15.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: xmlsoft libxml2 2.15.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/76fe08d97de88bfaef2f7d5cd27f11954cc5bee2
• https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/compare/v2.15.3...v2.15.4
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/work_items/1099

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