libstrophe through 0.14.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in SCRAM_Hi that allows malicious XMPP servers to overflow a 128-byte stack buffer by sending an oversized SCRAM salt. Attackers can send a server-first-message whose s= attribute decodes to more than 124 bytes, aborting the client or overwriting stack memory in NDEBUG builds.
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Description libstrophe through 0.14.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in SCRAM_Hi that allows malicious XMPP servers to overflow a 128-byte stack buffer by sending an oversized SCRAM salt. Attackers can send a server-first-message whose s= attribute decodes to more than 124 bytes, aborting the client or overwriting stack memory in NDEBUG builds.
Title libstrophe through 0.14.0 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow via SCRAM Salt in SCRAM_Hi
Weaknesses CWE-121
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-18T12:19:52.787Z

Reserved: 2026-10-18T12:00:08.233Z

Link: CVE-2026-112063

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-18T13:16:38.893

Modified: 2026-10-18T13:16:38.893

Link: CVE-2026-112063

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-18T14:15:14Z

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