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[NEW] [medium] expat: Vulnerability Enables Denial of Service

mediumCVE-2026-66046
An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in expat to perform a denial of service attack.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: expatproduct: expatDenial of service
What
An attacker can exploit a vulnerability to perform a denial-of-service attack.
Who is affected
Applications and systems using vulnerable expat library.
Urgency
Medium severity; standard update cycle appropriate.
Action
Update expat library to a patched version.

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Details

Source
CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)
Severity
medium
Published
2026-08-19
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync
Language
Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2906

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-66046coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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