CVE-2026-68767: hashcat hashcat

hashcat through 7.1.2 Off-by-One Out-of-Bounds Heap Write in fgetl()

CVSS 6.9 MediumEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 22 Aug 2026, 14:12 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
hashcat	hashcat	affected 7.1.2 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-68767

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-193

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.9	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
6.1	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 22 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/4739 issue-tracking
github.com/hashcat/hashcat product
github.com/hashcat/hashcat/commit/93b55d37d3b2340013d4036f10181ddc67d44249 patch
github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/v7.1.2/src/filehandling.c#L1032-L1060 technical-description
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hashcat-through-off-by-one-out-of-bounds-heap-write-in-fgetl third-party-advisory

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