CVE-2026-125406

CVE-2026-125406CVE-2026-125406

Description

Ettercap through 0.8.4.1 contains a stack buffer underwrite vulnerability in the telnet dissector in src/dissectors/ec_telnet.c that decrements the output pointer on backspace without a lower bound check. Attackers can send a telnet stream with more backspaces than preceding characters to write below the stack buffer, corrupting the stack of the Ettercap process that normally runs as root.

Scoring

CVSS 8.8 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Last modified2026-11-10
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.