CVE-2026-21870

The BACnet Protocol Stack library has an Off-by-one Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tokenizer_string

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 13, 2026
Updated
Feb 13, 2026
Reserved
Jan 5, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
bacnet-stackbacnet-stack
  • <= 1.4.2Affected
  • >= 1.5.0.rc1, <= 1.5.0.rc2Affected

References

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