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CVE-2026-51270
schreibfaul1 ESP32-audioI2S Heap-Based Buffer Overflow
Description

schreibfaul1 ESP32-audioI2S 3.4.5 has a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the htmlToUTF8() HTML entity decoding function. The function parses attacker-controlled malicious HTML entities and uses memmove and memcpy to rearrange string content without validating buffer remaining size and boundary limits. Crafted oversized HTML entity strings can trigger heap out-of-bounds write, allowing remote code execution, memory information leakage, service crash or privilege escalation.

INFO

Published Date :

July 28, 2026, 4:18 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 28, 2026, 4:23 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

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Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

Solution
Update ESP32-audioI2S to a version that fixes the heap-based buffer overflow in htmlToUTF8().
  • Update the ESP32-audioI2S library to the latest version.
  • Validate input for HTML entity decoding.
  • Ensure buffer boundaries are checked before memory operations.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/programmervuln/cveadvisory-/blob/main/CVE-2026-51270
https://github.com/schreibfaul1/ESP32-audioI2S/blob/master/src/Audio.cpp
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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 28, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Affected [{'vendor': 'n/a', 'product': 'n/a', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': 'n/a'}]}]
    Added Description schreibfaul1 ESP32-audioI2S 3.4.5 has a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the htmlToUTF8() HTML entity decoding function. The function parses attacker-controlled malicious HTML entities and uses memmove and memcpy to rearrange string content without validating buffer remaining size and boundary limits. Crafted oversized HTML entity strings can trigger heap out-of-bounds write, allowing remote code execution, memory information leakage, service crash or privilege escalation.
    Added Reference https://github.com/programmervuln/cveadvisory-/blob/main/CVE-2026-51270
    Added Reference https://github.com/schreibfaul1/ESP32-audioI2S/blob/master/src/Audio.cpp
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