Vulnerability · Published Sep 28, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2026-102296ZoneMinder before 1.38.4 Buffer Overflow via HTTP Camera Response
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity buffer overflow in zoneminder from ZoneMinder. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
ZoneMinder before 1.38.4 contains static buffer overflow vulnerabilities in RemoteCameraHttp::GetResponse() that allow malicious HTTP cameras or intercepting attackers to overflow fixed-size buffers by sending oversized response headers. Attackers can send crafted HTTP responses with oversized status messages, Connection headers, Content-Type values, or multipart boundaries to corrupt parser state and crash the capture process or corrupt memory.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | zoneminder | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-102296 |
| Debian:13 | zoneminder | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-102296 |
| Debian:14 | zoneminder | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-102296 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | zoneminder | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-102296 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | zoneminder | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-102296 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | zoneminder | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-102296 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| ZoneMinder | zoneminder | 0 – before 1.38.4 |
Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
References
- Patch Commit patch
- https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder product
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-93j4-rcp9-9jx6) vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/813bf6f1a3ffc92c163352f2480477ba571fca5b patch
- zoneminder 1.38.4 Release Notes release-notes
- https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/blob/1.38.3/src/zm_remote_camera_http.cpp#L736 technical-description
- VulnCheck Advisory: ZoneMinder before 1.38.4 Buffer Overflow via HTTP Camera Response third-party-advisory