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CVE-2026-68767 Details

UNDERGOING ENRICHMENT

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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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NDDVolerionCVSS-B:…Vector:This vulnerability is currently being analyzed.
CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.1 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat [email protected]
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/v7.1.2/src/filehandling.c#L1032-L1060 [email protected]
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/commit/93b55d37d3b2340013d4036f10181ddc67d44249 [email protected]
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/4739 [email protected]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hashcat-through-off-by-one-out-of-bounds-heap-write-in-fgetl [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-193Off-by-one Error[email protected]

Affected Products

This vulnerability is currently being analyzed

Change History

3 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-68767
NVD Published Date:
Aug 22, 2026
NVD Last Modified:
Sep 24, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2026-68767 Details - Not Deferred