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CVE-2026-68766: hashcat 0 through 7.1.2
CVE-2026-68766. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00235 (percentile 0.13335), scored 13-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
hashcat · 0 through 7.1.2
hashcat
Component: Not specified by the source
Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Local · No privileges required · Passive user interaction
What an attacker can do
Attackers can craft restore files with malicious options to append attacker-controlled content to arbitrary files, enabling code execution when targeting shell startup files. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 8.5/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high.
- CWE
- CWE-88
- CCR priority
- 31.3 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Vendor/CNA
- EPSS
- 0.00235 · percentile 0.13335 · 2026-10-13
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-14 15:56:36.793806+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-68766.html