CVE•Published 2026-08-03•Modified 2026-08-12•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-18588
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
46
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 54% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
A vulnerability has been found in Wavlink WL-NU516U1 708c073-mt7628. This affects the function fgets of the file nas.cgi. The manipulation of the argument CONTENT_LENGTH leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. You should upgrade the affected component. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-03
Modified 2026-08-12
External references
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More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-18588Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-18588Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
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CVE-2026-18588Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
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Google dork
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