CVE-2026-68767 — hashcat through 7.1.2 Off-by-One Out-of-Bounds Heap Write in fgetl()
hashcat's fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c writes a null terminator one byte past the caller's buffer when an input line is exactly the buffer length. Attackers can trigge…
Published: 2026-08-22 · CVSS: 6.9 · CVSS 4.0
hashcat's fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c writes a null terminator one byte past the caller's buffer when an input line is exactly the buffer length. Attackers can trigger this out-of-bounds heap write by providing a hash file, potfile, or wordlist containing a line of exactly HCBUFSIZ_LARGE bytes.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7