Security Advisory

CVE-2026-74860

CVSS 8.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in libxml2 with Python bindings enabled. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted XML document containing a Document Type Definition (DTD) with enumerated attribute values. This triggers a double-free error in the SAX attributeDecl callback handler, where a string is freed twice. This flaw can lead to a denial of service (DoS) due to a reproducible crash in Python applications using the libxml2 SAX bindings.
Published Date 2026-09-08T12:16:58.083
Data Feed NIST National Vulnerability Database