CVE-2026-97152 (GCVE-0-2026-97152)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 03:17 – Updated: 2026-09-24 03:17
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Summary
Nanomsg versions 0.5-beta through 1.x before 1.2.3 has a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the WebSocket transport, due to an unchecked copy of the Sec-WebSocket-Version header, through snprintf.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Nanomsg Nanomsg Affected: 0.5.0 , < 1.2.3 (semver)
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