CVE-2026-71979CWE-121

CVE-2026-71979

High · published August 17, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

INDI (Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface) indiserver through 2.2.4.2, fixed in commit 96bbd7f, contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the daemon by sending malformed XML with mismatched tags whose names exceed 1024 bytes. Attackers can send a single TCP packet on port 7624 with mismatched XML tags to trigger an unbounded sprintf() write into a fixed 1024-byte stack buffer in MsgQueue.cpp, terminating the daemon and disrupting all active client and driver sessions.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · 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
EPSS
0.00584 · 47.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-08-17T22:18Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 17:40Z
    INDI indiserver 2.2.4.2 Stack Buffer Overflow via XML Tag Parsing
    cvelistv5