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CVE-2026-10848

HIGH · CVSS 7 EPSS 0.26% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-08-02 · Last synced 2026-09-01

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The OCPP 1.6 client is vulnerable due to improper handling of inbound WAMP RPC frames, which can lead to out-of-bounds memory access and potential denial of service. Attackers, including those operating compromised central servers or on-path attackers, can exploit this vulnerability by sending oversized RPC frames, causing crashes or corruption of adjacent memory. Organizations utilizing the OCPP protocol, particularly those with the experimental feature enabled, should prioritize patching this vulnerability to mitigate the risk of service disruption.

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CVE
CVE-2026-10848
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7
EPSS
0.26%

Original NVD Description

The OCPP 1.6 client in subsys/net/lib/ocpp parsed inbound WAMP RPC frames in parse_rpc_msg() (subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp_j.c) using a hand-rolled helper, extract_string_field(), that copied the message's uid and action fields with strncpy(out_buf, token + 1, outlen - 1) and then scanned the result with strchr(out_buf, '"'). Because strncpy does not NUL-terminate the destination when the source is at least outlen - 1 (127) bytes long, the subsequent strchr reads past the 128-byte destination buffer into adjacent stack memory; if a " byte is found beyond the buffer, a one-byte out-of-bounds NUL write also occurs. A related defect in extract_payload() runs strchr/strrchr over the receive buffer, which may not be NUL-terminated when a maximal-length frame fills it. The parsed bytes come directly from the OCPP central-system server over a websocket: the reader thread fills recv_buf via websocket_recv_msg() and calls parse_rpc_msg() on each inbound DATA frame (subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp.c). A malicious or compromised central server, or an on-path attacker (OCPP is commonly deployed over plain ws://), can send an RPC frame whose uid or action field is 127+ bytes with no closing quote, triggering the out-of-bounds access. The primary impact is a remotely triggerable denial of service: the unbounded scan can fault on an unmapped page, and the stray NUL write can corrupt adjacent stack state. The over-read data is not reflected to the peer, so disclosure is limited. The feature is EXPERIMENTAL and must be explicitly enabled (CONFIG_OCPP). The fix replaces the manual parser with the bounds-respecting json_mixed_arr_parse() and copies the extracted uid with an explicitly NUL-terminated buffer, eliminating both over-reads.

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