CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-100403 BACnet Stack: BACnet/SC hub grows its WebSocket reassembly buffer without limit, so a peer can exhaust its memory
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BACnet Stack is a BACnet open source protocol stack C library for embedded systems. Prior to versions 1.4.6, 1.5.2, and 1.6.1, the BACnet/SC hub's Linux WebSocket server reassembles fragmented WebSocket messages into a per-connection fragment_buffer. It grows that buffer with realloc() on every non-final frame, with no upper bound. A peer that streams binary continuation fragments and never sets FIN keeps the hub reallocating until the box runs out of memory or the process is OOM-killed. The buffer starts at the maximum legal BVLC-SC NPDU size, but nothing after that ties its growth back to that limit. This issue has been patched in versions 1.4.6, 1.5.2, 1.6.1, and 1.7.0.
Severity
- CWE
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- Published
- Modified
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M (CNA)
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting analysis
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Versions
From the CNA's record in the CVE List.
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| bacnet-stack | < 1.4.6 |
| bacnet-stack | >= 1.5.0, < 1.5.2 |
| bacnet-stack | >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1 |
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- CAPEC-147 XML Ping of the Death Likelihood: Low · Severity: Medium
- CAPEC-227 Sustained Client Engagement
- CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup
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