CVEPublished 2026-08-22Modified 2026-08-260 articles on news6 live referencesNVD data

CVE-2026-68767

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
6.1
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS percentile
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description

hashcat's fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c writes a null terminator one byte past the caller's buffer when an input line is exactly the buffer length. Attackers can trigger this out-of-bounds heap write by providing a hash file, potfile, or wordlist containing a line of exactly HCBUFSIZ_LARGE bytes.

Timeline
Published 2026-08-22
Modified 2026-08-26

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