MEDIUM 5.5 NVD
CVE-2026-78161
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 Record
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
- 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
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2026-08-24 via NVD.
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