Search/CVE-2026-68767
● CVE — Medium

CVE-2026-68767

DiscoveredAug 22, 2026UpdatedSep 24, 2026

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.

CVSS v3.1
6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.17%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 24, 2026 → Sep 25, 2026
● 0.00pp
0.17% → 0.17% over 3 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionREQUIRED
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityLOW
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Connections
1 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Aug 22, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Sep 24, 2026