Buffer Overflow in Ettercap (CVE-2026-9365)
Summary
Vulnerability in Ettercap (CVE-2026-9365). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability has been found in Ettercap up to 0.8.3. The affected element is the function FUNC_DECODER of the file src/dissectors/ec_gg.c of the component GG Dissector. The manipulation of the argument gg leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is described as difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 0.8.4 is sufficient to fix this issue. The identifier of the patch is feeae6fa366e01a3dd9f1857ec6aae847b2ae00c. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-9365 has been found in Ettercap.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.6/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Ettercap CVE-2026-9365" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-9365 (Ettercap) — CWE-119 / CVSS v3 5.6
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-119) exists in Ettercap.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Ettercap.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.6/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Ettercap' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Ettercap' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Ettercapを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-9365 ettercap
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-9365 ettercap
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory vuldb.com
- advisory vuldb.com
- advisory github.com
- patch github.com
- patch github.com
- report github.com
- report vuldb.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com