CVE-2026-54410 PUBLISHED

nanoMODBUS through v1.23.0 contains an off-by-one buffer overflow in the recv_msg_header() function of the Modbus/TCP server that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to write one attacker-controlled byte past the end of the 260-byte receive buffer by sending a crafted MBAP frame whose Length field is set to 255. The overflow corrupts the adjacent buffer-index field of the nanoMODBUS state structure, resulting in denial of service through invalid memory accesses and, on bare-metal and RTOS targets without memory protection, one-byte information disclosure and writes to unintended register addresses on the Write Multiple Registers (FC16) handler path.

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• nanoMODBUS - upstream repository (vendor)
• Vulnerable bounds check at nanomodbus.c line 369 (v1.23.0)
• CWE-193: Off-by-one Error
• CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

• CWE-193 Off-by-one Error CWE
• CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write CWE

• A remote unauthenticated attacker who can reach a Modbus/TCP server built on nanoMODBUS can send a crafted MBAP frame with the Length field set to 255 to overflow the 260-byte receive buffer by one byte, corrupting the adjacent buf_idx field of the nmbs_t struct with an attacker-controlled value. This yields denial of service (subsequent handler calls treat the corrupted buf_idx as a register count / offset and crash, hang, or return invalid data), one-byte information disclosure on bare-metal and RTOS targets without memory protection (ARM Cortex-M, ESP32, STM32 class), and the possibility of writing to unintended register addresses on the FC16 (Write Multiple Registers) handler path. No authentication, no user interaction, and no special configuration are required.