A vulnerability was detected in libimobiledevice up to 1.4.0. The affected element is the function webinspector_receive_with_timeout of the file src/webinspector.c of the component Web Inspector. The manipulation results in heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit is now public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Description A vulnerability was detected in libimobiledevice up to 1.4.0. The affected element is the function webinspector_receive_with_timeout of the file src/webinspector.c of the component Web Inspector. The manipulation results in heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit is now public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Title libimobiledevice Web Inspector webinspector.c webinspector_receive_with_timeout heap-based overflow
First Time appeared Libimobiledevice
Libimobiledevice libimobiledevice
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-122
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:libimobiledevice:libimobiledevice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Libimobiledevice
Libimobiledevice libimobiledevice
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-26T11:45:13.241Z

Reserved: 2026-10-25T17:44:21.566Z

Link: CVE-2026-116262

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-26T12:17:06.783

Modified: 2026-10-26T13:41:11.497

Link: CVE-2026-116262

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