Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
github.com/moov-io/signedxml versions before 1.4.1 are vulnerable to denial of service during exclusive XML canonicalization. An unauthenticated attacker can send a small XML document with nested elements that declare many unused namespace prefixes, causing excessive memory use that can crash the process. Upgrade to 1.4.1.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | High | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CNA (GitHub_M) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0046, the 39th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-5588-rp99-5fjh
- OSV: GHSA-5588-rp99-5fjh
- github.com/moov-io/signedxml/security/advisories/GHSA-5588-rp99-5fjh
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113729
- github.com/moov-io/signedxml/commit/da2cd6126c4c53b7e59a367d287786e6f6a2d0d3
- github.com/moov-io/signedxml
- github.com/moov-io/signedxml/releases/tag/v1.4.1