CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23679
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
libusb before version 1.0.30 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that allows attackers to crash applications by supplying a malformed USB configuration descriptor where an interface claims bNumEndpoints greater than zero but is followed by a class-specific descriptor whose bLength exceeds the remaining buffer size, causing parse_interface() to return early without allocating the endpoint array. Attackers can exploit this flaw through libusb_get_active_config_descriptor or libusb_get_config_descriptor by providing crafted descriptors via virtualized USB passthrough, file-based descriptor parsing, or network sources, causing any application iterating over endpoints to dereference a NULL endpoint pointer and crash.
Affected configurations
• libusb libusb (< 1.0.30)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/578ab76b4c434f8b204137ab6d7310689c7a9704 Patch
- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/1813 Issue Tracking, Mitigation
- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/pull/1814 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/tag/v1.0.30 Product, Release Notes
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libusb-null-pointer-dereference-in-parse-interface Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/1813 Issue Tracking, Mitigation