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 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.

Published 24 Aug 2026, 01:16 UTC Last modified 24 Aug 2026, 01:16 UTC

5.5

CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM base score

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack profile

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Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Scope Not assessed

Confidentiality Not assessed

Integrity Not assessed

Availability Not assessed

Affected products

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NVD has not published structured affected-product data for this record.

Weakness classification

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CWECWE-119 CWECWE-787

Source references

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NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 02 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 03 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 04 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 05 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 06 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 07 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 08 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com