CVE-2026-41502

HIGH

BACnet Stack: Off-by-One Out-of-Bounds Read in ReadPropertyMultiple Object ID Decoder

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

BACnet Stack is a BACnet open source protocol stack C library for embedded systems. Prior to 1.4.3, an off-by-one out-of-bounds read vulnerability in bacnet-stack's ReadPropertyMultiple service decoder allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read one byte past an allocated buffer boundary by sending a crafted RPM request with a truncated object identifier. The vulnerability is in rpm_decode_object_id(), which checks apdu_len < 5 but then accesses all 6 byte positions (indices 0-5) — consuming 1 byte for the context tag, 4 bytes for the object ID, then reading apdu[5] for the opening tag check. A 5-byte input passes the length check but causes a 1-byte OOB read, leading to crashes on embedded BACnet devices. The vulnerability exists in src/bacnet/rpm.c and affects any deployment that enables the ReadPropertyMultiple confirmed service handler (enabled by default in the reference server). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.3.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 31.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-125 CWE-193
Status published
Products (3)
bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack >= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3
bacnetstack/bacnet_stack 1.5.0 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
bacnetstack/bacnet_stack 1.4.0 - 1.4.3
Published Apr 24, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 24, 2026