CVE-2026-27942

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Moderate Moderate Impact What does this mean?
7.5 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

A flaw was found in fast-xml-parser. A user can exploit this flaw by processing specially crafted XML data with the XML builder when the preserveOrder option is enabled. This can lead to a stack overflow, causing the application to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Statement

The flaw affects the XML builder component of the fast-xml-parser library and is triggered only when the preserveOrder option is explicitly enabled. In Red Hat–shipped configurations, this option is not enabled by default, and the vulnerable code path is therefore not exercised under typical deployments. The underlying issue results in uncontrolled recursion leading to a stack overflow condition, which causes the application to terminate unexpectedly. While this can be triggered via crafted input, the impact is limited strictly to denial of service (DoS) and does not provide a mechanism for arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, or data disclosure. Furthermore, exploitation requires that the affected application processes attacker-controlled XML input through the XML builder functionality with the specific vulnerable configuration enabled. This significantly reduces the attack surface and introduces environmental constraints not considered in the generalized NVD scoring.

Given the absence of confidentiality and integrity impact, the requirement for non-default configuration, and the limitation of the impact to process termination, Red Hat considers the practical risk to be lower than the NVD assessment. As such, this issue is classified as Moderate severity.

Mitigation

To mitigate this vulnerability, configure applications using the `fast-xml-parser` XML builder to set the `preserveOrder` option to `false`. Alternatively, ensure that all XML input data is thoroughly validated before being passed to the builder to prevent the processing of malicious or malformed content.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27942

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27942

Content from github.com is not included.https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/commit/c13a961910f14986295dd28484eee830fa1a0e8a

Content from github.com is not included.https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/pull/791

Content from github.com is not included.https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-fj3w-jwp8-x2g3

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 mta/mta-ui-rhel9 Affected
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.8 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8 Fixed RHSA-2026:7110
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.9 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8 Fixed RHSA-2026:7128
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Fixed RHSA-2026:6174
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Fixed RHSA-2026:6802
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8 Affected
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 Affected
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin Affected
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin-rhel9 Affected
Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9 Fixed RHSA-2026:12277
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 7.5 7.5
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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