{
"id": "GHSA-83xp-6qr9-g946",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-78161"
],
"details": "A vulnerability was found in warmcat libwebsockets 4.5.0. Impacted is the function report_raw_cbor of the file lib/misc/lecp.c of the component LECP CBOR Recording. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as 1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.",
"affected": [],
"modified": "2026-08-24T03:31:05Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"
},
{
"type": "CVSS_V4",
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"
}
],
"published": "2026-08-24T03:31:05Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78161",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/commit/1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/blob/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write/poc_lecp_cbor_pos_oob.c",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-78161",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://vuldb.com/submit/883225",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://vuldb.com/vuln/394543",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://vuldb.com/vuln/394543/cti",
"type": "WEB"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-119"
],
"severity": "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed": false,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-08-24T01:16:57Z",
"github_reviewed_at": null
}
}