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CVE-2026-123975VulnerabilityPublished

Grid Community Toolkit before 6.2.20261111 (globus-gss-assist before 12.9) contains a heap out-of-bounds write in

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-123975· High 8.7

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.7 High : upgrade to 6.2.20261111 soon.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 16:33 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.7High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 4.08.7
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 3.17.5
Patch
Available – fixed in 6.2.20261111, 12.9
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 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 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Grid Community Toolkit to 6.2.20261111; globus-gss-assist to 12.9.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Grid Community ForumGrid Community ToolkitAffected
  • <6.2.20261111
Fixed in
  • 6.2.20261111
Grid Community Forumglobus-gss-assistAffected
  • <12.9
Fixed in
  • 12.9
GitHubGrid Community Toolkitpkg:github/Grid Community ToolkitOther threatsAffected
  • <6.2.20261111
Fixed in
  • 6.2.20261111
GitHubglobus-gss-assistpkg:github/globus-gss-assistOther threatsAffected
  • <12.9
Fixed in
  • 12.9

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AI-suggested

If you cannot patch yet, consider restricting access to affected services from untrusted networks or disabling SSLv2 support if possible to mitigate exploitation risk.

Description

Grid Community Toolkit versions before 6.2.20261111 (and globus-gss-assist before 12.9) contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the function globus_gss_assist_token_get_fd(). This flaw is triggered by SSLv2 record lengths below 3. Remote unauthenticated attackers can exploit this by sending crafted GSI handshake records to services such as globus-gatekeeper and myproxy, causing heap memory corruption and service crashes.

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