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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-115473 EUVD-2026-117180

Mongoose: Heap OOB reads and null-byte bypass in mg_path_is_sane (util.c)

Published Nov 4, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, mg_path_is_sane in src/util.c read path.buf[1] without first requiring path.len to be at least two and read s[2] when only two bytes remained. Unauthenticated remote requests reaching mg_http_upload or mg_http_serve_dir with the affected short path shapes could therefore trigger one-byte heap out-of-bounds reads. On bare-metal or RTOS targets without memory protection, the adjacent byte could be exposed or influence whether a path was accepted, and instrumented builds could crash. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cesanta mongoose < 7.22 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 mongoose 7.22+ds-1 —

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