CVE-2026-48490

Summary

ArduinoCore-avr contains the source code and configuration files of the Arduino AVR Boards platform. A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8.8 allows an attacker to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow when concatenating floating-point values of sufficiently large magnitude onto an Arduino String object. By passing values near the extremes of the float or double range to String::concat(float), String::concat(double), String::operator+=(), or the + operator with a float/double operand, dtostrf() writes beyond the fixed-size stack buffer, causing memory corruption and denial of service. Under specific conditions, this could enable arbitrary code execution on AVR-based Arduino boards. The fix is included starting from the 1.8.8 release.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
arduinoArduinoCore-avr< 1.8.8affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120: CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

References