C-Kermit 6.0.192 before 11.1.515 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in tnsnenv() in ckctel.c that allows malicious Telnet servers to…
CVE-2026-129122
C-Kermit 6.0.192 before 11.1.515 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in tnsnenv() in ckctel.c that allows malicious Telnet servers to corrupt client memory via crafted NEW-ENVIRON SEND subnegotiation. Malicious or machine-in-the-middle servers can send oversized variable names before authentication, overflowing a 16-byte stack buffer and a miscomputed heap buffer to corrupt stack and heap memory.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.7 (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
- Affected
- OpenKermit · C-Kermit
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/security/advisories/GHSA-c5px-7h4c-gj8p
- https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/commit/39ab009a365b97632e9975e1266fa618c4bdc59f
- https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/commit/42cf6decb926f56d606a76262791aaf071955d25
- https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/releases/tag/v11.1.515
- https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/blob/v11.0.514/ckctel.c#L5622
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/c-kermit-6.0.192-before-11.1.515-buffer-overflow-via-telnet-new-environ-negotiation
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-129122
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