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CVE-2026-120596VulnerabilityPublished

Remotely Exploitable Denial-of-service Vulnerability Exists

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-120596· High 7.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 2 Nov 2026, 19:17 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CISA-ADPCVSS 3.17.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 2 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Ethernut / egnite GmbHNut/Net TCP/IP StackAffected
  • =Nut/OS 5.1
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, network-level protections such as filtering or blocking malformed TCP options may help mitigate exploitation. Rebooting the device restores TCP functionality after an attack.

Description

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TCP options parser of the Nut/Net TCP/IP stack used in Nut/OS up to version 5.1. An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted TCP segment with an unknown TCP option length of zero to cause an infinite loop, blocking TCP processing and making TCP services unresponsive until reboot.

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