Huawei malicious on-bus PLDM or NCSI device can drive out-of-bounds-heap reads via short MCTP responses
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Physical
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The openUBMC device-management process parses PLDM-over-MCTP and NCSI-over-MCTP responses from on-bus devices, and three response parsers in the shared transport libraries subtract a fixed header or reserved-field size from a device-supplied response length without a lower-bound check. An undersized response wraps the unsigned length difference to a very large value, and the parser then reads far past the response buffer. The affected code sits in the base (non-vendor) PLDM control class and the Huawei NCSI driver, so it is reachable for any PLDM endpoint or Huawei NIC on the internal management bus, unlike the vendor-specific wangxun parser tracked separately.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-13 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-65200
- 2026-10-13 Alias added: GHSA-62hr-2w2v-p8gj
- 2026-10-15 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
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Sources
- CVE-2026-65200 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-65200 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-62hr-2w2v-p8gj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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