bacnet-stack BACnet Stack up to 1.4.4/1.5.0/1.5.x EPICS Client apps/epics/main.c ProcessRPMData buffer overflow

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A vulnerability was found in bacnet-stack BACnet Stack up to 1.4.4/1.5.0/1.5.x. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ProcessRPMData of the file apps/epics/main.c of the component EPICS Client. This manipulation causes buffer overflow. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-52786. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability has been found in bacnet-stack BACnet Stack up to 1.4.4/1.5.0/1.5.x and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ProcessRPMData of the file apps/epics/main.c of the component EPICS Client. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 tool’s legitimate ReadPropertyMultiple request with a syntactically valid ReadPropertyMultiple-ACK that contains more heading properties than the tool’s 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 tool’s 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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-52786 since 06/08/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 1.4.5, 1.5.1 or 1.6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• bacnet-stack

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• BACnet Stack

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.5
• 1.5.0

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