CVE-2026-48490

ArduinoCore-AVR: Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in String float/double concatenation handler

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Sep 14, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2026

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Description

ArduinoCore-avr contains the source code and configuration files of the Arduino AVR Boards platform. A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8.8 allows an attacker to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow when concatenating floating-point values of sufficiently large magnitude onto an Arduino String object. By passing values near the extremes of the float or double range to `String::concat(float)`, `String::concat(double)`, `String::operator+=()`, or the `+` operator with a float/double operand, `dtostrf()` writes beyond the fixed-size stack buffer, causing memory corruption and denial of service. Under specific conditions, this could enable arbitrary code execution on AVR-based Arduino boards. The fix is included starting from the `1.8.8 `release.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ArduinoCore-avrarduino
  • < 1.8.8Affected

References

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