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CVE-2026-5450 CRITICAL

Published: 2026-04-20 | Last Modified: 2026-07-14 | Status: Modified

Description

Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.

CVSS Metrics

Base Score: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
Confidentiality ImpactHIGH
Integrity ImpactHIGH
Availability ImpactHIGH

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Type: Secondary

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Impact Score: 5.9

Weaknesses

Source Type Description
3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18 Secondary
en CWE-122
[email protected] Primary
en CWE-787

Affected Products

Vendor Product Version Update Type
gnu glibc * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x702bdd9bd000> Application

Affected Configurations

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
Yes cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References

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