Description
In EPICS Base release 7.0.10 and prior, an insufficient validation of element or length values in a network message can cause the application to read beyond the bounds of an allocated buffer. This may lead to denial of service and could expose adjacent memory contents.
Published: 2026-10-27
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

The EPICS Community has made available updates to the epics-base GitHub repositories. Affected users should update to the 7.0.11 release. For more information, users should contact the EPICS Controls team https://epics-controls.org/support/. https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/934 https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/937 https://github.com/epics-base/pvDataCPP/pull/109

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History

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

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Description In EPICS Base release 7.0.10 and prior, an insufficient validation of element or length values in a network message can cause the application to read beyond the bounds of an allocated buffer. This may lead to denial of service and could expose adjacent memory contents.
Title Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion') in EPICS Base
Weaknesses CWE-843
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: icscert

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-27T16:53:28.775Z

Reserved: 2026-10-21T20:17:35.041Z

Link: CVE-2026-114598

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-27T17:16:59.003

Modified: 2026-10-27T17:16:59.003

Link: CVE-2026-114598

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-843

    Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')