Security advisory

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  "id": "b16abb25f27d75a6c2591dac8409ebd372de7c40f39ddfa22c2557c1e94c8912",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-56409",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2026-56409",
    "summary": "xmlwf in libexpat before 2.8.2 has an integer overflow for the output filename when -d outputDir is used.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-56409",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "id": "CVE-2026-56409",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2026-56409"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L"
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      "affected": [
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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          "versions": [
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            "R_2_8_0",
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            "R_2_3_0",
            "R_2_2_10",
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            "R_2_2_8",
            "R_2_2_7",
            "R_2_2_6",
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            "R_2_2_4",
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            "R_2_1_1",
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            "R_2_0_1",
            "R_2_0_0",
            "R_1_95_8",
            "R_1_95_7",
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            "R_1_95_5",
            "R_1_95_4",
            "R_1_95_3",
            "R_1_95_2",
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-56409.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.058435489Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/56xxx/CVE-2026-56409.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56409",
        "https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/1259"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-190"
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        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/56xxx/CVE-2026-56409.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2026-56409",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 487341,
  "published_at": "2026-06-21T15:52:59.663+00:00"
}