CVE-2026-109854

A flaw was found in m17n-lib. An attacker who supplies crafted input to an application processing ISO-2022 encoded text can cause the library to read uninitialized memory from the stack. If the application exposes or returns the decoded output, this flaw can result in unexpected behavior and limited information disclosure.

CVSS v3 2.5 LOW

2.5^/10

CVSS v3 : LOW

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109854
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2550285
https://cgit.git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/m17n/m17n-lib.git/commit/?id=f3b85087f90189f91c04ba1b62c5f0b879ff2b20
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m17n-list/2026-10/msg00001.html

Configurations

No configuration.

History

13 Oct 2026, 10:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-13 10:17

Updated : 2026-10-16 22:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-109854

Mitre link : CVE-2026-109854

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-109854

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-457

Use of Uninitialized Variable

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