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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-21878

BACnet Stack Improperly Limits Pathnames to a Restricted Directory

Description

BACnet Stack is a BACnet open source protocol stack C library for embedded systems. Prior to 1.5.0.rc3, a vulnerability has been discovered in BACnet Stack's file writing functionality where there is no validation of user-provided file paths, allowing attackers to write files to arbitrary directories. This affects apps/readfile/main.c and ports/posix/bacfile-posix.c. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.0.rc3.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

bacnet-stack bacnet-stack

  • < 1.5.0.rc3affected

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