Medium severity · published May 12, 2026
CVE-2026-1681
net: Stack Overflow with Ping (to own IP Address) via Shell
6.1
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issuing an ICMP ping via the `net ping` shell command to a device's own IPv4 address causes the network stack to recursively re-enter the input path on the same system work-queue stack. Because the destination is recognized as a local address, both the echo request and the resulting echo reply are processed inline before the current frame returns. The nested input-path frames exceed the work-queue stack and trigger a stack overflow.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 4% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZE
Zephyr · zephyrproject-rtos
before 4.4.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1681
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1681
Exploit
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-6fcc-8rwr-w7xx
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