{
"id": "GHSA-vgv2-whp7-2895",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-68767"
],
"details": "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.",
"affected": [],
"modified": "2026-08-22T15:31:04Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H"
},
{
"type": "CVSS_V4",
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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": "2026-08-22T15:31:04Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68767",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/4739",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/commit/93b55d37d3b2340013d4036f10181ddc67d44249",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/v7.1.2/src/filehandling.c#L1032-L1060",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hashcat-through-off-by-one-out-of-bounds-heap-write-in-fgetl",
"type": "WEB"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-193"
],
"severity": "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed": false,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-08-22T15:16:20Z",
"github_reviewed_at": null
}
}