A flaw was found in libsoup. When constructing a masked WebSocket client frame for a very large outgoing payload, size values passed to GByteArray allocation APIs could be truncated while the masking routine still used the full length, causing a heap buffer overflow.
CVE-2026-102559
Score 8.6 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-29. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.6; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.6
- EG Score
- 8.6HIGHhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 54EG Risk 54/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity86% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 20th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
September 29, 2026
Last Modified
September 30, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Sep 29, 20262543285 – (CVE-2026-102559) CVE-2026-102559 libsoup: libsoup: Heap buffer overflow during WebSocket client-frame masking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543285CVE-2026-102559 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-102559Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-102559(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 24× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-04 04:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-04 04:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 15:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 15:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-03 15:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 02:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 02:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-02 13:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-02 00:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-02 00:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-01 10:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 21:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-30 10:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-29 21:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-29 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 17:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 17:28 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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