# CVE-2026-87668: Memory corruption in Fabric OS

> An authenticated administrator can cause a denial of service via a stack-based buffer overflow in the diagnostic utility of Brocade Fabric OS.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-ph5j-f53x-2pfj

## What is CVE-2026-87668?

CVE-2026-87668 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 8 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the diagnostic execution utility of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 10.0.1. When processing command arguments for diagnostic operations, the utility tokenizes user-supplied input into an internal argument array without enforcing boundary checks on the maximum array capacity. An authenticated user with administrative access can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted diagnostic command string containing an excessive number of tokenized arguments. This leads to a memory overwrite resulting in a denial of service (process crash).

Weakness: CWE-121 (Stack-based Buffer Overflow)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-87668?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-87668?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-87668 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-87668 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-87668 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

- [CVE-2025-1976](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1976/): Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection (high 8.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-22555](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-22555/): Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-33186](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-33186/): Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-27797](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-27797/): Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-15371](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15371/): Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-87668 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-87668 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 8 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-87668 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Broadcom Fabric Operating System. 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-2026-87668/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-87668/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-87668
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-87668
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-87668

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.