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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-68767

CVE-2026-68767

Medium
Open
TLP:CLEAR

hashcat through 7.1.2 Off-by-One Out-of-Bounds Heap Write in fgetl()

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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.

Details

CVSS Score
6.9
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 22, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 22, 2026
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