High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2026
CVE-2026-78161
CVE-2026-78161
Description
A vulnerability was found in warmcat libwebsockets 4.5.0. Impacted is the function report_raw_cbor of the file lib/misc/lecp.c of the component LECP CBOR Recording. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as 1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.
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Affected products
1- Range: =4.5.0
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References
7- github.com/biniamf/pocs/blob/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write/poc_lecp_cbor_pos_oob.cnvd
- github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_writenvd
- github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/commit/1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054nvd
- vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-78161nvd
- vuldb.com/submit/883225nvd
- vuldb.com/vuln/394543nvd
- vuldb.com/vuln/394543/ctinvd
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