Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-71979

indilib indi

INDI indiserver 2.2.4.2 Stack Buffer Overflow via XML Tag Parsing

CVSS 4.0
8.7High

Official description

INDI (Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface) indiserver through 2.2.4.2, fixed in commit 96bbd7f, contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the daemon by sending malformed XML with mismatched tags whose names exceed 1024 bytes. Attackers can send a single TCP packet on port 7624 with mismatched XML tags to trigger an unbounded sprintf() write into a fixed 1024-byte stack buffer in MsgQueue.cpp, terminating the daemon and disrupting all active client and driver sessions.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.7High 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
indilib indi v ≤ 2.2.4.2 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-08-17
Last updated
2026-08-17
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
VulnCheck

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.57%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
47.6%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-121
    Stack-based Buffer Overflow