Answer in brief
CVE-2026-68767 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in hashcat through 7.1.2 Off-by-One Out-of-Bounds Heap Write in fgetl(). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps hashcat/hashcat (generic), hashcat/hashcat (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 6.1. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps hashcat/hashcat (generic), hashcat/hashcat (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| hashcat/hashcatgeneric | 0 | Not reported |
| hashcat/hashcatgeneric | >=0 <=7.1.2 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Aug 22, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 24, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 22, 2026
hashcat's fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c writes a null terminator one byte past the caller's buffer when an input line is exactly the buffer length. Attackers can trigger this out-of-bounds heap write by providing a hash file, potfile, or wordlist containing a line of exactly HCBUFSIZ_LARGE bytes.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.