CVE-2026-102560

HIGHPre-NVD 8.68.6—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

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.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 5 sources updated this week
8.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 8.6Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in libsoup. When the permessage-deflate WebSocket extension compresses a very large outgoing message, truncated size calculations used for GByteArray growth could wrap, causing zlib to write past the allocated buffer and resulting in a heap buffer overflow.

CVSS v3
8.6
EG Score
8.6HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
54
EG 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 computed
Severity86% × 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 29, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 29, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2543296 – (CVE-2026-102560) CVE-2026-102560 libsoup: libsoup: Heap buffer overflow during outgoing permessage-deflate buffer growth

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543296
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-102560 - 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-2026-102560

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-102560(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 25× in last 7d / 25× 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.

  1. 2026-10-04 05:28 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-04 05:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 16:36 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 16:36 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-03 16:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-03 03:44 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-03 03:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-02 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-02 01:59 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-02 01:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-10-01 13:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-01 00:14 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-01 00:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-30 10:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-29 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-29 20:28 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-29 20:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-29 20:01 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-29 20:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-29 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-29 17:30 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-29 17:28 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-102560?
CVE-2026-102560 is a high vulnerability published on September 29, 2026. A flaw was found in libsoup. When the permessage-deflate WebSocket extension compresses a very large outgoing message, truncated size calculations used for GByteArray growth could wrap, causing zlib to write past the allocated buffer and resulting in a heap buffer overflow.
When was CVE-2026-102560 disclosed?
CVE-2026-102560 was first published on September 29, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-102560 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-102560 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (20th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-102560?
CVE-2026-102560 has a CVSS base score of 8.6 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-102560?
A fix for CVE-2026-102560 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-102560 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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