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CVE-2026-2642

A security vulnerability has been detected in ggreer the_silver_searcher up to 2.2.0. The impacted element is the function search_stream of the file src/search.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:307d3cbe25e26e7fce43d0a939f57661792297ecafec53c0d2a092fa1f4e693f
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
2

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cvss · 4 assertions

{"metric":{"baseScore":3.3,"baseSeverity":"LOW","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/2/cvssV3_0

{"metric":{"baseScore":4.8,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P","version":"4.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

{"metric":{"baseScore":3.3,"baseSeverity":"LOW","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1

{"metric":{"baseScore":1.7,"vectorString":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR","version":"2.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV2_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/3/cvssV2_0
cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-476","description":"NULL Pointer Dereference","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-404","description":"Denial of Service","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"the_silver_searcher","vendor":"ggreer","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"2.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"2.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"2.2.0"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

4 source assertions
{"metric":{"baseScore":3.3,"baseSeverity":"LOW","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/2/cvssV3_0
{"metric":{"baseScore":4.8,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P","version":"4.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0
{"metric":{"baseScore":3.3,"baseSeverity":"LOW","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1
{"metric":{"baseScore":1.7,"vectorString":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR","version":"2.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV2_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/metrics/3/cvssV2_0

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-476","description":"NULL Pointer Dereference","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-404","description":"Denial of Service","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

Source references

6 source assertions
{"tags":["product"],"url":"https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"tags":["issue-tracking"],"url":"https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1558"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://github.com/oneafter/0119/blob/main/segv1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"name":"VDB-346398 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)","tags":["signature","permissions-required"],"url":"https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.346398"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"VDB-346398 | ggreer the_silver_searcher search.c search_stream null pointer dereference","tags":["vdb-entry","technical-description"],"url":"https://vuldb.com/?id.346398"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"name":"Submit #752769 | ggreer the_silver_searcher master-branch NULL Pointer Dereference","tags":["third-party-advisory"],"url":"https://vuldb.com/?submit.752769"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a6fcbad1714ed79a7acc0292fa2e88211303dda0a3831e23ede8d73f0cbc6433 · sha256:ad62cb255c82e9d5… · /containers/cna/references/2

Attribution and limitations

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