CVE-2026-25061CWE-787

tcpflow has TIM Element OOB Write in wifipcap

Medium · published January 29, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

tcpflow is a TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. In versions up to and including 1.61, wifipcap parses 802.11 management frame elements and performs a length check on the wrong field when handling the TIM element. A crafted frame with a large TIM length can cause a 1-byte out-of-bounds write past `tim.bitmap[251]`. The overflow is small and DoS is the likely impact; code execution is potential, but still up in the air. The affected structure is stack-allocated in `handle_beacon()` and related handlers. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
EPSS
0.00583 · 47.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-01-29T21:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 JAN 21:42Z
    tcpflow has TIM Element OOB Write in wifipcap
    cvelistv5