CVE-2026-82079

Potential Leakage of Nintendo Switch System Information Through a Proximity-Based Remote Attack

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Sep 10, 2026
Updated: Sep 11, 2026
Reserved: Aug 28, 2026

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Nintendo Switch local wireless networking functionality may allow an attacker within wireless range to execute arbitrary code using return-oriented programming (ROP) through crafted network traffic. This issue affects Nintendo Switch: before 23.0.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.0 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	Nintendo
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based buffer overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Nintendo SwitchNintendo	before 23.0.0Affected

References

https://www.nintendo.com/security-advisories/en/index.html

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