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CVE-2026-29972

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-121

Description

nanoMODBUS through v1.22.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in recv_read_registers_res() in nanomodbus.c. When a client calls nmbs_read_holding_registers() or nmbs_read_input_registers(), the library writes register data from the server response to the caller-provided buffer based on the response's byte_count field before validating that byte_count matches the requested quantity. A malicious Modbus TCP server can send a response with byte_count=250 (125 registers) regardless of the requested quantity, causing up to 248 bytes of attacker-controlled data to overflow the buffer, potentially allowing remote code execution.

References

• https://gist.github.com/dwilliams27/a4e26fe747c8561d608f7549804bd85f
• https://github.com/debevv/nanoMODBUS
• https://github.com/debevv/nanoMODBUS/blob/master/nanomodbus.c#L580-L615

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