# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-40023"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-10T15:45:52.895Z"
updatedAt: "2026-04-10T17:29:20.009Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-40023"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-40023.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40023"
title: "Apache Log4cxx, Apache Log4cxx (Conan), Apache Log4cxx (Brew): Silent log event loss in XMLLayout due to unescaped XML 1.0 forbidden characters"
summary: "Apache Log4cxx's  XMLLayout https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/1.7.0/classlog4cxx_1_1xml_1_1XMLLayout.html , in versions before 1.7.0, fails to sanitize characters forbidden by the  XML 1.0 specification https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets  in log messages, NDC, and MDC property keys and values, producing invalid XML output. Conforming XML parsers must reject such documents with a fatal error, which may cause downstream log processing systems to drop or fail to index affected records.\n\nAn attacker who can influence logged data can exploit this to suppress individual log records, impairing audit trails and detection of malicious activity.\n\nUsers are advised to upgrade to Apache Log4cxx 1.7.0, which fixes this issue."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.7.0"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Log4cxx","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.7.0"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Log4cxx (Conan)","packageName":"log4cxx","collectionURL":"https://conan.io/center","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.7.0"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Log4cxx (Brew)","packageName":"log4cxx","collectionURL":"https://brew.sh/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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