CVE-2026-48141
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs
Summary
There is a memory leak in NI grpc-device version 2.17.0 and prior in the BeginSidebandStream function, which may lead to denial of service due to memory exhaustion.
Risk Assessment
The organization may experience service outages due to memory exhaustion, impacting operations and user satisfaction.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update NI grpc-device to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and prevent availability issues.
Other vulnerabilities in NI grpc-device
See all- CVE-2026-48137Critical
There is an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability in the NI grpc-device sideband streaming API that may allow an attacker to cause an arbitrary memory dereference, potentially resulting in remote code execution. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to supply a specially crafted Moniker protobuf message.
- CVE-2026-48140Medium
There is an unchecked enum cast vulnerability in NI grpc-device version 2.17.0 and prior in the BeginSidebandStream function. This may allow an attacker to trigger invalid enum states and undefined behavior, potentially resulting in a denial of service.
Original NVD description (English source)
There is a memory leak in NI grpc-device BeginSidebandStream that may result in denial of service due to memory exhaustion. This affects NI grpc-device 2.17.0 and prior versions.

