Published Nov 13, 2026Sources checked Nov 13, 2026
4.4MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-128241 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 4.4. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Nov 14, 2026
Release Notes
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSSUnavailableNo current score collected
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-128241?
The xmlwf tool in libexpat through 2.10.0 contains a symlink following vulnerability because -d output mode opens files with fopen("wb"), which follows symbolic links. Local attackers with write access to the output directory can plant a symlink at the expected output name to truncate or overwrite files writable by the xmlwf user.