CVE-2026-78161

high Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score
0.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 66% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Published: August 24, 2026 (13 days ago)
Last Modified: August 24, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

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.

CWE

CWE-787

Affected Products

A-MQ Interconnect 1Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1Red Hat Satellite 6Red Hat Service Interconnect 2

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com