CVE-2026-78161
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.3
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.5%
43.0th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-119
Published 2026-08-24 · modified 2026-08-24
Description
A vulnerability was found in warmcat libwebsockets 4.5.0. Impacted is the function report_raw_cbor of the file lib/misc/lecp.c of the component LECP CBOR Recording. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as 1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.
References
- https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/blob/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write/poc_lecp_cbor_pos_oob.c
- https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write
- https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/
- https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/commit/1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-78161
- https://vuldb.com/submit/883225
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/394543
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/394543/cti