CVE-2026-52786
Published:November 12, 2026
Updated:November 13, 2026
BACnet Stack is a BACnet open source protocol stack C library for embedded systems. Prior to versions 1.4.5, 1.5.1, and 1.6.0, in the official apps/epics client tool on v1.6.0-rc1 (not in the generic BACnet RPM ACK decoder alone) a malicious BACnet/IP endpoint can reply to the EPICS toolās legitimate ReadPropertyMultiple request with a syntactically valid ReadPropertyMultiple-ACK that contains more heading properties than the toolās fixed local storage can hold. The response is decoded successfully and later consumed by ProcessRPMData(), which writes property values into a fixed global array using an unbounded linear index. This results in a reproducible global-buffer-overflow in apps/epics/main.c. This is a network-reachable memory corruption in the official epics toolās response-processing path. The root cause is that apps/epics treats a remotely supplied variable-length RPM property list as if it were a trusted, fixed-size local heading-property set. This issue has been patched in versions 1.4.5, 1.5.1, and 1.6.0.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) =bacnet-stack-1.5.0 <bacnet-stack-1.5.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version bacnet-stack-1.5.1https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=bacnet-stack-0-7-0 <bacnet-stack-1.4.5 || >=bacnet-stack-0.7.3 <bacnet-stack-1.4.5 || >=bacnet-stack-1.0.0 <bacnet-stack-1.4.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version bacnet-stack-1.4.5Related ResourcesĀ (5)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
HIGH
EPSS
Base Score:
0.22