CVE-2026-8836
A vulnerability was found in lwIP up to 2.2.1.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.10%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A vulnerability was found in lwIP up to 2.2.1. Affected is the function snmp_parse_inbound_frame of the file src/apps/snmp/snmp_msg.c of the component snmpv3 USM Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument msgAuthenticationParameters results in stack-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The patch is named 0c957ec03054eb6c8205e9c9d1d05d90ada3898c. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue. Two separate issue reports were submitted to the project. Their processing was merged as a duplicate.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.9 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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/M
- EPSS
- 1.10% probability · 64th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-121
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git/commit/?id=0c957ec03054eb6c8205e9c9d1d05d90ada3898c
- https://github.com/lwip-tcpip/lwip/commit/0c957ec03054eb6c8205e9c9d1d05d90ada3898c
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?68055
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?68194
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-8836
- https://vuldb.com/submit/829798
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/364474
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/364474/cti
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.