CVE-2026-78161

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.

• CWE-119
• CWE-787

• https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/blob/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write/poc_lecp_cbor_pos_oob.c
• https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libwebsockets-lecp-lecp_parse-cbor_pos_oob_write
• https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/
• https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/commit/1d44554a1bb262db63ff4e240152a9deecd99054
• https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-78161
• https://vuldb.com/submit/883225
• https://vuldb.com/vuln/394543
• https://vuldb.com/vuln/394543/cti

Published

Aug 24, 2026

Last Modified

Aug 24, 2026

Status

Received

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