UBUNTU-CVE-2026-78161 (CVE-2026-78161)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-08-24 01:16 – Updated: 2026-09-02 16:27 – Source website
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.3 (High)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server",
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},
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}
]
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"1.6.1-1",
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"1.7.0-2",
"1.7.1-1"
]
},
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},
{
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}
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"package": {
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"binary_version": "3.2.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server-common",
"binary_version": "3.2.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
},
{
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}
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"package": {
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"3.2.1-3",
"3.2.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1"
]
},
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server",
"binary_version": "4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server-common",
"binary_version": "4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets16",
"binary_version": "4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
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"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libwebsockets@4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
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},
{
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"binary_name": "libwebsockets-evlib-ev",
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-evlib-glib",
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-evlib-uv",
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server",
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server-common",
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{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets19t64",
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}
]
},
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"4.3.3-1",
"4.3.3-1.1build1",
"4.3.3-1.1build2",
"4.3.3-1.1build3",
"4.3.3-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
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},
{
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"binary_version": "4.3.5-3ubuntu1"
},
{
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server",
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets-test-server-common",
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},
{
"binary_name": "libwebsockets19t64",
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}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS",
"name": "libwebsockets",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libwebsockets@4.3.5-3ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=resolute"
},
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],
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"4.3.5-1",
"4.3.5-3",
"4.3.5-3ubuntu1"
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}
],
"aliases": [],
"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.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-78161",
"modified": "2026-09-02T16:27:47Z",
"published": "2026-08-24T01:16:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-78161"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78161"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"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",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
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{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
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"upstream": [
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]
}
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