{"id":"CVE-2026-48490","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-48490","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:11:53.112Z","title":"A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8.8 allows an attacker to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow when concatenating floating-point values of sufficiently large magnitude onto an Arduino String object.","description":"ArduinoCore-avr contains the source code and configuration files of the Arduino AVR Boards platform. A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8.8 allows an attacker to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow when concatenating floating-point values of sufficiently large magnitude onto an Arduino String object. By passing values near the extremes of the float or double range to `String::concat(float)`, `String::concat(double)`, `String::operator+=()`, or the `+` operator with a float/double operand, `dtostrf()` writes beyond the fixed-size stack buffer, causing memory corruption and denial of service. Under specific conditions, this could enable arbitrary code execution on AVR-based Arduino boards. The fix is included starting from the `1.8.8 `release.","published":"2026-09-11T21:17:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-30T19:57:08.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-120"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00668,"percentile":0.51698,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.67%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/pull/622/changes/9492e146880d2b05d9cb9191f1bfb2c872a48404","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/releases/tag/1.8.8","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/security/advisories/GHSA-fhp2-f8hw-mgpj","source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48490","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}