Buffer overflow in Opensips

CVE-2026-45100

OpenSIPS is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation. Versions 3.4.0-beta through 3.6.5 and 4.0.0-beta contain a buffer overflow in the {s.b64encode} string transformation. The size check for {s.b64encode} only verifies that the input fits within the 64 KB transformation buffer, but base64 encoding expands the data by roughly a third, so an input between about 49,153 and 65,535 bytes produces more output than the buffer can hold and overflows it by up to 21,844 bytes. Because these transformation buffers sit next to each other in memory and are reused for chained transformations, the overflow writes attacker-controlled data into the adjacent buffer and corrupts values used by later transformations processing the same SIP message. A remote attacker can trigger this by sending a SIP message with a large header value (roughly 50,000 bytes or more) when the routing script applies  {s.b64encode}  to attacker-controlled input, making exploitability dependent on the deployment's routing configuration. This issue has been fixed in versions 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.007 (50.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

  • Opensips — versions >= 3.4.0-beta, < 3.6.6, >= 4.0.0-beta, < 4.0.0-rc1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-45100?
CVE-2026-45100 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Opensips, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2026-45100?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.