CVE-2023-52426

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

libexpat through 2.5.0 allows recursive XML Entity Expansion if XML_DTD is undefined at compile time.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52426.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-52426

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed2.6.0-1
debian debiansidfixed2.6.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.6.0-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.