PT-2026-141223

CVE-2026-125400

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Published

2026-11-09

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Updated

2026-11-10

Description by

CVSS 3.1
8.8
High
MetricsAV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ettercap through 0.8.4.1 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in func pcre() in src/ec filter.c that reads the PCRE2 ovector after freeing match data. Network-adjacent attackers can send packets matching a loaded pcre regex() substitution filter to corrupt memory and potentially execute code as root.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-416: Use After Free
Related identifiers
CVE-2026-125400
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