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CVE-2026-62966high7.5

ESPAsyncWebServer multipart parser has null-pointer write

Impact

ESPAsyncWebServer versions prior to 3.11.2 have a null-pointer write vulnerability in the multipart parser, potentially causing a denial of service. An attacker must have access to a route with a non-trivial body/upload handler. The weakness is a null pointer dereference and operation on a resource after expiration or release.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

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ESP32Async · GitHub_M

ESPAsyncWebServer

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< 3.11.2

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unknown

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Original source description

ESPAsyncWebServer is an asynchronous HTTP and WebSocket server library for ESP32, ESP8266, RP2040 and RP2350. Prior to version 3.11.2, the multipart parser in src/WebRequest.cpp frees _itemBuffer and sets it to NULL when BOUNDARY_OR_DATA matches the closing boundary of a file part, before confirming the following terminator, while leaving _itemIsFile true. If the next byte is neither the final closing dashes nor a clean CRLF, the DASH3_OR_RETURN2 or EXPECT_FEED2 rewind branch re-injects provisionally consumed bytes through itemWriteByte. Because _itemIsFile remains true, _itemBuffer[_itemBufferIndex++] writes through a null pointer. On ESP32 this causes a StoreProhibited exception, panic and device reboot, producing remote denial of service. A route with a non-trivial body/upload handler, such as a file-upload or web-OTA endpoint, must be present. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.2.

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CVE-2026-62966

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-476 ↗

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

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CWE-672 ↗

CWE-672: Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release

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2026-10-30

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