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CVE-2026-7840

critical CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.6%

UltraVNC repeater through 1.8.2.2 contains a global buffer overflow in its embedded HTTP administration server. The functions wi_senderr() and wi_replyhdr() in repeater/webgui/webutils.c write the caller-supplied HTTP request URI into a fixed 1000-byte global buffer (hdrbuf) via unchecked sprintf calls. The HTTP receive buffer accepts URIs up to approximately 150 KB (WI_RXBUFSIZE = 153600), so an unauthenticated attacker who can reach the repeater HTTP port (default TCP 80) can overflow hdrbuf by at least 500 bytes with a single HTTP request containing a URI of 1500 bytes or longer, corrupting adjacent .bss-segment globals. The overflow occurs before any authentication check, making it reachable without credentials. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution on the host running the repeater.

Versions it affects

Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-7840 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
Critical
CVSS base score
9.8 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-787
Published
2026-07-01

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