Published Aug 30, 2024Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
9.8CRITICALCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2024-45491 and is rated Critical severity with a CVSS score of 9.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
What to do next
Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
2.6.3-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS1.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2024-45491?
An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).