NEURON (CoreNEURON) through 9.0.2 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to corrupt stack memory by supplying…
CVE-2026-123203
NEURON (CoreNEURON) through 9.0.2 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to corrupt stack memory by supplying over-long tokens in a crafted model dataset. Attackers can place oversized version or mechanism-name tokens in bbcoremech.dat, globals.dat, or files.dat loaded by nrniv-core to crash the process.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.9 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 5 November 2026
- Last updated
- 5 November 2026
- Affected
- neuronsimulator · neuron
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/pull/3932
- https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/commit/6e5a6578a3503c44ee0f19593e7ffb19812ef0e1
- https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/blob/ba5783378c0aa1d9ac95b4454bea94b15c63f75d/src/coreneuron/io/mk_mech.cpp#L81-L96
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/neuron-through-9.0.2-stack-based-buffer-overflow-via-coreneuron-dataset-tokens
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