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CVE-2026-128237VulnerabilityPublished

Scapy before 2.8.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in BER_num_dec() and BERcodec_OID.do_dec() that allows

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-128237· Medium 6.9

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.9 Medium : upgrade to 2.8.0 when convenient.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 13:33 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.9Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 4.06.9
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 3.15.3
Patch
Available – fixed in 2.8.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 scapy to 2.8.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
secdevscapyAffected
  • <2.8.0
Fixed in
  • 2.8.0
PyPIscapypkg:pypi/scapyOther threatsAffected
  • <2.8.0
Fixed in
  • 2.8.0

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in Scapy version 2.8.0 and later. Users should upgrade to version 2.8.0 or above to remediate this vulnerability. No other mitigation or workaround is indicated.

Description

Scapy versions before 2.8.0 have a denial of service vulnerability in the BER_num_dec() and BERcodec_OID.do_dec() functions. This flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust CPU resources by sending ASN.1/BER data with oversized OID arcs containing many base-128 continuation bytes. On Python 3.11 and later, this can also cause an uncaught ValueError crash.

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