CVE-2026-21870

medium

Description

BACnet Protocol Stack library provides a BACnet application layer, network layer and media access (MAC) layer communications services. In 1.4.2, 1.5.0.rc2, and earlier, an off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the ubasic interpreter causes a crash (SIGABRT) when processing string literals longer than the buffer limit. The tokenizer_string function in src/bacnet/basic/program/ubasic/tokenizer.c incorrectly handles null termination for maximum-length strings. It writes a null byte to dest[40] when the buffer size is only 40 (indices 0-39), triggering a stack overflow.

References

https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/security/advisories/GHSA-pc83-wp6w-93mx

https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/pull/1196

https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/commit/4e1176394a5ae50d2fd0b5790d9bff806dc08465

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-13

Updated: 2026-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium