CVE-2026-14461CWE-125

Out-of-bound read in mtr

Medium · published July 10, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

mtr is vulnerable to Out-of-bound read vulnerability in ipinfo_lookup() function. An attacker who can influence the TXT response used for AS lookups can trigger this bug by returning a DNS response that is larger than 512 bytes and uses a crafted compression pointer in the answer NAME field. ipinfo_lookup() function uses the length of the response as the end-of-message boundary for dn_expand() function. The result is a reliable crash.

This issue exists in the mtr through version 0.96 and it was fixed in commit 48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00304 · 21.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-07-10T10:38Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUL 10:38Z
    Out-of-bound read in mtr
    cvelistv5