CVE-2026-7210
`xml.parsers.expat` and `xml.etree.ElementTree` use insufficient entropy for Expat hash-flooding protection, which allows a crafted XML document to trigger hash flooding.\r\n\r\nFully mitigating this vulnerability requires both updating libexpat to 2.8.0 or later and applying this patch.
Weakness
`xml.parsers.expat` and `xml.etree.ElementTree` use insufficient entropy for Expat hash-flooding protection, which allows a crafted XML document to trigger hash flooding.\r\n\r\nFully mitigating this vulnerability requires both updating libexpat to 2.8.0 or later and applying this patch.
Affected products
- python python
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/24b8f12544468e4cedf5bfbe25442fcd495391e4
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3573b3b1ecbd99030a0b18658e1bfece771b2566
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cbaecf9f16da611a646d507c1cbca265c588fc56
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e37df2a6a71d6538698e2d3188a7c345b827640b
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ea70712d1a8508e14e9677d44f838dab04dc0286
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eeea765cb9d8f1fc3d8918b272ac3c477983f27a
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