CVE-2026-112021

high

Description

snac2 before 2.93 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in _xs_json_load_lexer() that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to corrupt heap memory by sending JSON strings containing a \u0000 escape. Attackers can send a single crafted application/activity+json POST to activitypub_post_handler(), which parses it before signature checks, overflowing heap allocations and crashing the server.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/snac2-before-2.93-heap-based-buffer-overflow-via-json-parser-xs-json-load-lexer

https://nullenvk.pl/posts/02-snac2-json

https://gist.github.com/nullenvk/2bf288e2d34cb3d4b7143e61dbf7d90b

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-103474

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/tag/2.92/xs_json.h#L283-L285

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/releases/tag/2.93

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/commit/ec2c5c2046e0381bc942ec5d0d05ec861fe377e7

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-18

Updated: 2026-10-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High