CVE-2026-96402 USBX PIMA/MTP host class reads past its receive buffer when a device over-reports its object handle count
Medium 5.2
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-96402 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-96402 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eclipse ThreadX - USBX, published on 20 Oct 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-96402 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Eclipse ThreadX - USBX. 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-2026-96402/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-96402/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-96402?
CVE-2026-96402 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eclipse ThreadX - USBX, published on 20 Oct 2026.
Official description
A malicious USB MTP/PTP device can cause the USBX host to read past a heap buffer during ordinary object enumeration, leaking adjacent heap contents to the application or faulting on an unmapped page.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-96402?
How do I fix CVE-2026-96402?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-96402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-96402 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-96402 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2ch9-p8xv-fwp6.