CVE-2026-9479
Published: 25 May 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-9479 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 12.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Remote stack buffer overflow in web form of network device directly enables exploitation of public-facing application for initial access/RCE.
NVD Description
A security vulnerability has been detected in Edimax EW-7438RPn 1.31. The affected element is the function formLogout of the file /goform/formLogout. The manipulation of the argument submit-url leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely.…
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The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Deeper analysisAI
Automated synthesis unavailable for this CVE.
Details
- CWE(s)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-31711