MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-125405 (CVSS 7.2)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 10, 2026Risk 23/100

Ettercap through 0.8.4.1 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Parse_NTLM_Auth() in src/dissectors/ec_http.c due to unvalidated NTLM message offsets. Attackers can send a crafted HTTP Authorization header observed by Ettercap to read beyond the buffer, disclosing memory or crashing the process.

Technical details

CVSS

7.2

AV:AdjacentAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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