{"id":"CVE-2026-76787","summary":"NULL pointer dereference in the UpdateHub FOTA client when probe metadata omits sha256sum","details":"The UpdateHub firmware-over-the-air client parses the CoAP probe response with Zephyr's JSON library in z_impl_updatehub_probe() (subsys/mgmt/updatehub/updatehub.c). The decoder treats every descriptor field as optional — json_obj_parse() returns a bitmask of the fields it actually decoded and never fails on a missing one — so a response that omits the \"sha256sum\" string leaves the corresponding const char * in the zero-initialised struct resp_probe_any_boards / struct resp_probe_some_boards at NULL. Both metadata branches then computed sha256size = strlen(...objects.sha256sum) + 1 before any validation, dereferencing that NULL pointer; the SHA256_HEX_DIGEST_SIZE test that follows operates on a value the bad read has already produced and cannot prevent it.\n\nThe metadata is supplied entirely by the network peer: probe_cb() accepts the datagram, runs coap_packet_parse() and copies the payload with no token matching and no cryptographic check. With CONFIG_UPDATEHUB_DTLS unset — the default — start_coap_client() uses plain CoAP over UDP on port 5683 with no peer authentication and resolves the server via unauthenticated DNS, so an on-path attacker, a DNS spoofer, or an off-path attacker who wins the race with a forged source address can deliver the malformed metadata. A probe response as simple as \"objects\":[[{}],[{}]] suffices, and no user interaction is required because updatehub_autohandler() polls on CONFIG_UPDATEHUB_POLL_INTERVAL. When CONFIG_UPDATEHUB_DTLS=y the trigger narrows to a malicious or compromised update server.\n\nThe primitive is a read at address zero, not a write, so the impact is availability only. On targets where the low address range is unmapped or protected — MMU-based architectures, builds with CONFIG_NULL_POINTER_EXCEPTION_DETECTION_DWT/_MPU/_PMP, TrustZone non-secure images, and SoCs such as nRF54L whose 0x0–0x400 window is unmapped — the load faults and Zephyr's default fatal handler halts the system, giving a remotely re-triggerable denial of service on every poll. On classic Cortex-M targets where the vector table is readable at address zero the walk usually terminates immediately and the request is rejected by the length check, so the outcome is configuration- and SoC-dependent. There is no memory write, and the copied bytes are only compared against the locally computed image hash, so there is no information-disclosure channel.\n\nThe fix adds an explicit sha256sum == NULL test that returns UPDATEHUB_METADATA_ERROR ahead of the strlen() in both metadata branches. Debug builds (CONFIG_UPDATEHUB_LOG_LEVEL=4) still format the same pointers with %s in a LOG_DBG() loop that runs before the new checks, so that variant remains in debug configurations only.","aliases":["GHSA-82gq-cmqw-xgx2"],"modified":"2026-10-21T10:42:35.079244362Z","published":"2026-10-19T20:39:20.425Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"zephyr","cwe_ids":["CWE-476"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/76xxx/CVE-2026-76787.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"extracted_events":[{"strategy":"StandardRange","range":[{"introduced":"2.4.0"},{"fixed":"4.5.0"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"}]}]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/76xxx/CVE-2026-76787.json"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/6fc4f27a74021b52c509e4f7912d68145dfa7728"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-82gq-cmqw-xgx2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76787"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6fc4f27a74021b52c509e4f7912d68145dfa7728"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"source":"REFERENCES_COMMIT","range":[{"fixed":"6fc4f27a74021b52c509e4f7912d68145dfa7728"}]}]}}],"versions":["v4.4.0","v4.4.0-rc3","v4.4.0-rc2","v4.4.0-rc1","v4.3.0","v4.3.0-rc3","v4.3.0-rc2","v4.3.0-rc1","v4.2.0","v4.2.0-rc3","v4.2.0-rc2","v4.2.0-rc1","v4.1.0","v4.1.0-rc3","v4.1.0-rc2","v4.1.0-rc1","v4.0.0","v4.0.0-rc3","v4.0.0-rc2","v4.0.0-rc1","v3.7.0","v3.7.0-rc3","v3.7.0-rc2","v3.7.0-rc1","v3.6.0","v3.6.0-rc3","v3.6.0-rc2","v3.6.0-rc1","zephyr-v3.5.0","v3.5.0","v3.5.0-rc3","v3.5.0-rc2","v3.5.0-rc1","zephyr-v3.4.0","v3.4.0","v3.4.0-rc3","v3.4.0-rc2","v3.4.0-rc1","zephyr-v3.3.0","v3.3.0","v3.3.0-rc3","v3.3.0-rc2","v3.3.0-rc1","zephyr-v3.2.0","v3.2.0","v3.2.0-rc3","v3.2.0-rc2","v3.2.0-rc1","zephyr-v3.1.0","v3.1.0","v3.1.0-rc3","v3.1.0-rc2","v3.1.0-rc1","zephyr-v3.0.0","v3.0.0","v3.0.0-rc3","v3.0.0-rc2","v3.0.0-rc1","v2.7.99","v2.7.0-rc3","v2.7.0-rc2","v2.7.0-rc1","zephyr-v2.6.0","v2.6.0","v2.6.0-rc3","v2.6.0-rc2","v2.6.0-rc1","zephyr-v2.5.0","v2.5.0","v2.5.0-rc4","v2.5.0-rc3","v2.5.0-rc2","v2.5.0-rc1","zephyr-v2.4.0","v2.4.0","v2.4.0-rc3","v2.4.0-rc2","v2.4.0-rc1","zephyr-v2.3.0","v2.3.0","v2.3.0-rc2","v2.3.0-rc1","zephyr-v2.1.0","v2.1.0","zephyr-v2.2.0","v2.2.0","v2.2.0-rc3","v2.2.0-rc2","v2.2.0-rc1","v2.1.0-rc3","v2.1.0-rc2","v2.1.0-rc1","zephyr-v2.0.0","v2.0.0","v2.0.0-rc3","v2.0.0-rc2","v2.0.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.14.0","v1.14.0","v1.14.0-rc3","v1.14.0-rc2","v1.14.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.13.0","v1.13.0","v1.13.0-rc3","v1.13.0-rc2","v1.13.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.12.0","v1.12.0","v1.12.0-rc3","v1.12.0-rc2","v1.12.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.11.0","v1.11.0","v1.11.0-rc3","v1.11.0-rc2","v1.11.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.10.0","v1.10.0","v1.10.0-rc3","v1.10.0-rc2","v1.10.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.9.0","v1.9.0","v1.9.0-rc4","v1.9.0-rc3","v1.9.0-rc2","v1.9.0-rc1","v1.8.99","zephyr-v1.5.0","v1.5.0","v1.7.99","v1.6.99","v1.5.0-rc4","v1.5.0-rc3","v1.5.0-rc2","v1.5.0-rc1","v1.5.0-rc0","zephyr-v1.4.0","v1.4.0","v1.4.0-rc3","v1.4.0-rc2","v1.4.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.3.0","v1.3.0","v1.3.0-rc2","v1.3.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.2.0","v1.2.0","v1.2.0-rc2","v1.2.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.1.0","v1.1.0","v1.1.0-rc1","zephyr-v1.0.0","v1.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-76787.json","vanir_signatures":[{"target":{"file":"subsys/mgmt/updatehub/updatehub.c","function":"z_impl_updatehub_probe"},"deprecated":false,"digest":{"length":5400,"function_hash":"285912501559056853072427983711578437668"},"id":"CVE-2026-76787-07793c4d","signature_type":"Function","signature_version":"v1","source":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/6fc4f27a74021b52c509e4f7912d68145dfa7728"},{"signature_version":"v1","source":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/6fc4f27a74021b52c509e4f7912d68145dfa7728","target":{"file":"subsys/mgmt/updatehub/updatehub.c"},"deprecated":false,"digest":{"line_hashes":["233109779401392989397211912634658163145","250489669307802614282789100746107608754","53797276932795606779551728094907524770","184538429505145301496026208556206723688","325033955125986899266365578696753133576","155855279543302125458919409163431904144"],"threshold":0.9},"id":"CVE-2026-76787-eb9c1e43","signature_type":"Line"}],"vanir_signatures_modified":"2026-10-21T10:42:35Z"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}