CVE-2026-71973EPSS p7.3%

CVE-2026-71973CVE-2026-71973

Description

U-Boot before 2026.10-rc4 contains an integer overflow vulnerability in sqfs_read_directory_table() function when allocating the directory table buffer. Attackers can supply a crafted SquashFS image with an attacker-controlled superblock metablks_count value that causes heap buffer under-allocation and out-of-bounds writes, corrupting heap memory and crashing the bootloader.

Scoring

CVSS 5.2 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS0.18% probability of exploitation · percentile 7.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-10-02
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.