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CVE-2026-86142

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: none known
• Published: 2026-09-05 · updated 2026-09-15
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

In libxml2 before 2.15.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart because of xmlXPtrEval xpointer length saturation.

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/6b3a736c0edc74ceec3d82f5252499d7911b3a58
• https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/compare/v2.15.3...v2.15.4
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/work_items/1113

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