PT-2026-79567

CVE-2026-68767

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Published

2026-08-22

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Updated

2026-10-19

Description by

CVSS 4.0
6.9
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions hashcat (affected versions not specified)
Description The fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c contains an out-of-bounds heap write. This occurs when the function writes a null terminator one byte beyond the caller's buffer if an input line is exactly the buffer length. An attacker can trigger this issue by providing a wordlist, potfile, or hash file containing a line of exactly HCBUFSIZ LARGE bytes.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:12181-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22138-1
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