MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-125402 (CVSS 7.2)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 10, 2026Risk 23/100

Ettercap through 0.8.4.1 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in sslw_get_clienthello_sni() in src/ec_sslwrap.c that trusts the unchecked 16-bit SNI length field. Network-adjacent attackers can send crafted TLS ClientHello messages during SSL interception to leak up to 64 KB of heap memory upstream or crash Ettercap.

Technical details

CVSS

7.2

AV:AdjacentAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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