Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-116785

signalwire freeswitch

FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication heap out-of-bounds write in mod_xml_rpc WebSocket frame length handling

CVSS 3.1
9.1Critical

Official description

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to 1.11.2, ws_read_frame() decoded a WebSocket frame's 64-bit extended payload length with a 32-bit byte swap and narrowed the result into a signed length. A value whose surviving low word became negative bypassed the signed size check and was reinterpreted as an enormous unsigned count, causing client bytes to overwrite memory beyond the 64 KiB receive buffer. Any client completing a /socket WebSocket upgrade on an enabled mod_xml_rpc endpoint reached the parser before HTTP authentication; both the module and WebSocket endpoint are disabled by default. The heap overwrite can corrupt connection pointers and crash FreeSWITCH, ending every concurrent session, although remote code execution has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.1Critical 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
signalwire freeswitch < 1.11.2 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-11-05
Last updated
2026-11-09
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M
Kolun priority
30 · Low

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.03%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
63.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-122
    Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-681
    Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types
  • CWE-787
    Out-of-bounds Write