In EPICS Base release 7.0.10 and prior, an insufficient validation of element or length values in a network message can cause the application to read beyond the bounds of an allocated buffer. This may lead to denial of service and could expose adjacent memory contents.
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Fixes

Solution

The EPICS Community has made available updates to the epics-base GitHub repositories. Affected users should update to the 7.0.11 release. For more information, users should contact the EPICS Controls team https://epics-controls.org/support/. https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/934 https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/937 https://github.com/epics-base/pvDataCPP/pull/109


Workaround

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History

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

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Description In EPICS Base release 7.0.10 and prior, an insufficient validation of element or length values in a network message can cause the application to read beyond the bounds of an allocated buffer. This may lead to denial of service and could expose adjacent memory contents.
Title Improper handling of length parameter inconsistency in EPICS Base
Weaknesses CWE-130
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: icscert

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-27T16:51:59.240Z

Reserved: 2026-10-21T20:17:34.239Z

Link: CVE-2026-114597

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-27T17:16:58.840

Modified: 2026-10-27T17:16:58.840

Link: CVE-2026-114597

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