In libexpat before 2.8.1, the computational complexity of attribute name collision checks allows a denial of service via moderately sized crafted XML input.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-407"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45186.json",
"cna_assigner": "mitre"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.8.1"
},
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.8.1"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE"
],
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}