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High · 7.5 Public exploit CVE-2026-116567 EUVD-2026-117740

FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication stack buffer overflow in mod_rtmp control-message handling

Published Nov 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to 1.11.2, rtmp_handle_control() rendered an RTMP user-control message into a 200-byte stack buffer using an unbounded sprintf loop controlled by the wire message length. A body of roughly 70 bytes or more overflowed the stack before any RTMP login, because the handshake authenticates neither side. The flaw affects deployments that build and load mod_rtmp, which is disabled in the stock build and configuration but commonly exposes a listener on TCP port 1935 when enabled. One unauthenticated message can crash FreeSWITCH and end every active call; the constrained ASCII hex output has not yielded control-flow hijacking. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
signalwire freeswitch < 1.11.2 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • carterlasalle/CVE-2026-116567 ★ 0 · Nov 9, 2026

    PoC for CVE-2026-116567 — pre-auth stack overflow in the FreeSWITCH mod_rtmp control-message handler (FreeSWITCH < 1.11.2)

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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