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CVE-2026-5450

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 0.50%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2026-04-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2026-5450
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
0.50%

Original NVD Description

Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.

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