CVE-2026-126048Martin Preuss Gwenhywfar stack-based buffer overflow
CVE-2026-126048 is a stack-based buffer overflow in Martin Preuss Gwenhywfar, rated medium (5.1 on CVSS 4.0).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Received
What it is
A buffer on the stack overflows, which can overwrite return addresses and hand an attacker control of execution.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it with physical access to the device, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
A successful attack can take it offline. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker crash the process, read memory, or in the worst case run code.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet.
What to do
- Upgrade Martin Preuss Gwenhywfar to 5.14.2 or later.
Description from NVD
Gwenhywfar 4.99.8beta before 5.14.2 contains a stack-based buffer overflow in GWEN_TLV_Buffer_To_DB() in src/parser/tlv.c when decoding BER-TLV tags into a fixed 128-byte buffer. Attackers can supply a record with about 127 or more tag continuation bytes or a truncated multi-byte tag, such as via a malicious chip card's EF_SSD file read by libchipcard's ZKA driver, to crash the application.
What this means for your architecture.
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Components it touches
- Native code: operating systems, browsers and firmware. The flaw sits wherever native code reads untrusted data.
- Network appliances and media or file parsers. The flaw sits wherever native code reads untrusted data.
Trust boundaries in play
- Host boundary. The attacker needs a foothold on the machine first; the flaw turns a small foothold into a bigger one.
- Wherever native code reads untrusted data. An attacker who crosses it can crash the process, read memory, or in the worst case run code.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does Martin Preuss Gwenhywfar run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those devices sit where outsiders can touch them?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
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Sources
- CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
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