CVE-2026-66720 PUBLISHED

MZ Automation libiec61850 Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner: icscert
Reserved: 27.07.2026 Published: 30.07.2026 Updated: 30.07.2026

The GOOSE subscriber component improperly validates the UTC timestamp field in unauthenticated IEC 61850 GOOSE (EtherType 0x88B8) Layer-2 multicast messages. A specially crafted GOOSE frame containing an undersized timestamp field can trigger a heap out-of-bounds read during message processing, causing the process to crash and resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Adjacent Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Adjacent	Confidentiality	None	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	None	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	MZ Automation GmbH
Product	libiec61850
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 1.6.2 (excl.) Version 1.6.2 is unaffected

Solutions

MZ Automation GmbH recommends that users update to version 1.6.2.

Credits

Arun Babu of Central Power Research Institute reported this vulnerability to CISA. finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-125 CWE