CVE-2026-125400 Ettercap through 0.8.4.1 Use-After-Free via PCRE2 Filter Substitution
High 8.7
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-125400 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-125400 is a high-severity vulnerability in ettercap, published on 9 Nov 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-125400 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: ettercap. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125400/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125400/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-125400?
CVE-2026-125400 is a high-severity vulnerability in ettercap, published on 9 Nov 2026.
Official description
Ettercap through 0.8.4.1 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in func_pcre() in src/ec_filter.c that reads the PCRE2 ovector after freeing match data. Network-adjacent attackers can send packets matching a loaded pcre_regex() substitution filter to corrupt memory and potentially execute code as root.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-125400?
How do I fix CVE-2026-125400?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-125400 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-125400 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-125400 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-125400, GHSA-f3j5-rhhr-85j5, GHSA-hf6q-wchc-457m, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-125400.