Philips Hue Bridge HomeKit Pair-Setup heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Philips Hue Bridge. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component HomeKit Pair-Setup. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-3556. The attack must originate from the local network. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Philips Hue Bridge (version unknown). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component HomeKit Pair-Setup. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The advisory is shared at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-3556. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack needs to approached within the local network. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Philips

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• Hue Bridge

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.philips.ch/

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