Grid Community Toolkit before 6.2.20261111 (globus-gss-assist before 12.9) contains a heap out-of-bounds write in…
CVE-2026-123975
Grid Community Toolkit before 6.2.20261111 (globus-gss-assist before 12.9) contains a heap out-of-bounds write in globusgssassisttokengetfd() triggered by SSLv2 record lengths below 3. Remote unauthenticated clients can send a crafted GSI handshake record to services like globus-gatekeeper and myproxy to corrupt heap memory and crash the service.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.7 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 13 November 2026
- Last updated
- 13 November 2026
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://gridcf.org/#2026-11-11
- https://github.com/gridcf/gct/commit/3df2be4834c146bdcec90009a0f2e5771ff63cca
- https://github.com/gridcf/gct/releases/tag/v6.2.20261111
- https://github.com/gridcf/gct/blob/v6.2.20190829/gsi/gss_assist/source/tokens_f.c
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/grid-community-toolkit-globus-gss-assist-before-12.9-pre-authentication-heap-out-of-bounds-write
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-123975
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