{"id":"CVE-2026-78253","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-78253","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:19:35.683Z","title":"Uncontrolled recursion in QXmlStreamReader::readElementText() in Qt Group Qt allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via stack exhaustion) via a crafted XML document.","description":"Uncontrolled recursion in QXmlStreamReader::readElementText() in Qt Group Qt allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via stack exhaustion) via a crafted XML document.","published":"2026-09-23T12:17:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-24T21:08:23.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"a59d8014-47c4-4630-ab43-e1b13cbe58e3","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":2.3,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-674"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00428,"percentile":0.36791,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-24","score":0.00253,"percentile":0.14931}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-23T12:17:07.000Z","detail":{"score":"2.3","severity":"LOW","publishedAt":"2026-09-23T12:17:07.063Z"},"summary":"New CVE, low severity (CVSS 2.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/754345","source":"a59d8014-47c4-4630-ab43-e1b13cbe58e3"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78253","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}