CVE-2026-21870

MEDIUM

BACnet Protocol Stack <1.5.0.rc2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

BACnet Protocol Stack library provides a BACnet application layer, network layer and media access (MAC) layer communications services. In 1.4.2, 1.5.0.rc2, and earlier, an off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the ubasic interpreter causes a crash (SIGABRT) when processing string literals longer than the buffer limit. The tokenizer_string function in src/bacnet/basic/program/ubasic/tokenizer.c incorrectly handles null termination for maximum-length strings. It writes a null byte to dest[40] when the buffer size is only 40 (indices 0-39), triggering a stack overflow.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-193
Status published

Affected Products (3)

bacnetstack/bacnet_stack < 1.4.2
bacnetstack/bacnet_stack
bacnetstack/bacnet_stack

Timeline

Published Feb 13, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026