Medium severity · published Oct 16, 2026
CVE-2026-55862
pupnp: Incomplete fix for CVE-2021-28302: recursive DOM functions cause stack overflow
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
pupnp is an SDK for development of UPnP device and control point applications. Prior to 2.0.0, multiple ixml DOM traversal functions process deeply nested XML with unbounded recursion. The iterative XML parser accepts the document, but ixmlPrintDomTreeRecursive in ixml/src/ixml.c and ixmlNode_getElementsByTagNameRecursive, ixmlNode_getElementsByTagNameNSRecursive, ixmlNode_cloneNodeTreeRecursive, and ixmlNode_isAncestor in ixml/src/node.c recurse over firstChild and nextSibling links. An unauthenticated peer on the local network can supply deeply nested XML through a SOAP request, exhaust a service thread's stack, and crash the UPnP service. This is an incomplete-fix case for CVE-2021-28302 because its remediation converted ixmlNode_free but left these traversal paths recursive. This issue is fixed in 2.0.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PU
pupnp · pupnp
< 2.0.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55862
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55862
Patch
https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp/commit/82ccaec7ab6b1258ea1ac66374d8940712ccd4c4
Release Notes
https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp/releases/tag/release-2.0.0
Exploit
https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp/security/advisories/GHSA-25cx-xv8x-j247
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