CVE-2026-41429 PUBLISHED

Improper validation of NBNS name_len in arduino-esp32 NetBIOS leads to memory corruption

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.04.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

arduino-esp32 is an Arduino core for the ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 microcontrollers. Prior to 3.3.8, there is a remotely reachable memory corruption issue in the NBNS packet handling path. When NetBIOS is enabled by calling NBNS.begin(...), the device listens on UDP port 137 and processes untrusted NBNS requests from the local network. The request parser trusts the attacker-controlled name_len field without enforcing a bound consistent with the fixed-size destination buffers used later in the flow. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.8.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor espressif
Product arduino-esp32
Versions
  • Version < 3.3.8 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE