CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-68767

MediumCVSS 6.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause memory corruption and process crash, potentially leading to denial of service or possibly arbitrary code execution.

Recommendation

Update hashcat to the latest version that includes a security fix for the fgetl() function.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS