CVE-2026-29035 PUBLISHED

CivetWeb Heap/Stack Buffer Overflow via WebSocket permessage-deflate Decompression

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 03.03.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

CivetWeb (commit 4a4f0c95) contains a heap and stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the read_websocket() function that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to corrupt memory by sending compressed WebSocket frames when both USE_ZLIB and MG_EXPERIMENTAL_INTERFACES are defined. Attackers can negotiate permessage-deflate during the WebSocket handshake and send a crafted frame with the RSV1 bit set, causing the server to write a 4-byte zlib sync trailer out-of-bounds past the allocated buffer, leading to heap metadata corruption, denial of service, or potential code execution.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.3

Product Status

Vendor civetweb
Product civetweb
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 4a4f0c95 (incl.)

Credits

  • Kazuma Matsumoto, a security researcher at GMO Cybersecurity by IERAE, Inc. finder

References

Problem Types

  • Out-of-bounds Write CWE