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CVE-2026-42859: Neat VNC: Buffer overflow due to oversized RSA public keys

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v4.0)
• 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: 2026-05-11 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Neat VNC is a VNC server library. Prior to 0.9.6, a pre-authentication stack buffer overflow exists in neatvnc in the RSA-AES security type handler. An unauthenticated remote attacker who can reach the VNC listening socket can send a crafted security type 5 (RSA-AES) or security type 129 (RSA-AES-256) handshake with an oversized client RSA public key, causing rsa_aes_send_challenge in src/auth/rsa-aes.c to overflow a 1024-byte on-stack buffer when encrypting the server challenge. This results in at least a denial of service via server crash. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6.

Affected products

• any1 neatvnc: before 0.9.6

References

• https://github.com/any1/neatvnc/commit/1f6cd6b75cc167fed3a19a9d1552a1f662f6b337
• https://github.com/any1/neatvnc/security/advisories/GHSA-567c-gpv8-qh9h

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