CVE-2026-12478
MediumCVSS 4.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk33th percentile - higher than 33% of all known CVEs
Summary
The fix for CVE-2026-0716 in libsoup 3.6.6 (commit 6ff7ef0) placed the integer overflow guard only inside the masked frame block, leaving unmasked server-to-client frames unprotected. A malicious WebSocket server can send a crafted unmasked frame with a payload length near UINT64_MAX to trigger an OOB read in a libsoup-based client when max_incoming_payload_size is set to 0.
Risk Assessment
A malicious WebSocket server can exploit this vulnerability to read out-of-bounds memory in the client application, potentially leading to sensitive data leakage or system instability.
Recommendation
Update libsoup to a version containing the full fix for CVE-2026-12478 and set max_incoming_payload_size to a non-zero value to mitigate the risk.
Other vulnerabilities in libsoup
See all- CVE-2026-102560High
In libsoup, when the permessage-deflate WebSocket extension compresses a very large outgoing message, truncated size calculations used for GByteArray growth could wrap, causing zlib to write past the allocated buffer and resulting in a heap buffer overflow.
- CVE-2026-102556High
In libsoup, when handling an incoming WebSocket Pong frame, SoupWebsocketConnection emitted the ::pong signal with a GByteArray pointer even though the signal is declared to pass a GBytes. Applications connecting a handler that follows the documented GBytes API can trigger heap corruption or a crash upon receiving a crafted Pong.
- CVE-2025-32911Critical
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the libsoup library, in the soup_message_headers_get_content_disposition() function. This flaw allows a malicious HTTP client to cause memory corruption in the libsoup server.
- CVE-2026-103399Medium
A flaw was found in SoupServer (libsoup). When an HTTP/1.x client sends a request with Expect: 100-continue and a request body, and SoupServer returns an early final (non-1xx) response before the body is read, the server neither drains the declared body bytes nor closes the connection. On a keep-alive connection, those leftover bytes are interpreted as a subsequent HTTP request.
- CVE-2026-102559High
In libsoup, when constructing a masked WebSocket client frame for a very large outgoing payload, size values passed to GByteArray allocation APIs could be truncated while the masking routine still used the full length, causing a heap buffer overflow.
- CVE-2026-102558High
In libsoup, when max-incoming-payload-size is unlimited (0), SoupWebsocketConnection could grow its incoming GByteArray based on an attacker-controlled frame length until the length wrapped, causing a heap buffer overflow while reading frame data.
- CVE-2026-102555High
In libsoup, the soup_uri_decode_data_uri() function incorrectly treated base64 data-URI payloads as NUL-terminated strings when calling g_base64_decode_inplace(). If the percent-decoded payload contained embedded NUL bytes, the decoded length could remain uninitialized and be used as the size of the returned GBytes. This can lead to an out-of-bounds read or application crash when processing a crafted data URI.
- CVE-2026-102557High
In libsoup, when reassembling fragmented WebSocket messages into a GByteArray, libsoup did not adequately cap total message size against the limits of the underlying buffer type. A remote peer could send fragments that caused size truncation while the implementation still used the full length, leading to heap corruption or a crash.
- CVE-2026-85534Medium
A flaw was found in libsoup where sending an HTTP/2 request body from a non-pollable input stream can lead to buffering more data than the flow-control window allows. A malicious server can shrink SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE while the buffered read is in progress, causing the client to copy the full buffer into a smaller DATA callback without bounds check, potentially aborting the process or failing the HTTP/2 session.
- CVE-2026-85197High
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in libsoup's HTTP/2 client implementation. A malicious HTTP/2 server or MITM attacker can exploit it when a GNOME application uploads a file over HTTP/2 and the server sends a GOAWAY frame while the file body is being read asynchronously. This can lead to memory corruption, information disclosure, or arbitrary code execution.
Original NVD description (English source)
The fix for CVE-2026-0716 (commit 6ff7ef0, libsoup 3.6.6) placed the integer overflow guard inside the if (masked) block, leaving unmasked server-to-client frames unprotected. A malicious WebSocket server can send a crafted unmasked frame with a payload length near UINT64_MAX to trigger an OOB read in a libsoup-based client when max_incoming_payload_size is set to 0.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

