CVE-2026-41080

low Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Published: April 16, 2026 (27 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in libexpat. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted XML document that leverages insufficient entropy in the hash function. This can lead to hash flooding, a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack, where the system becomes unresponsive or crashes due to excessive resource consumption.

CWE

CWE-331

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com