Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-116744 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-116744 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-116744?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 26 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Ntop nDPI through 6.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-116744?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-116744 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-116744?
- Check whether you run Ntop nDPI at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The dissect_softether_host_fqdn() function in softether.c uses a consumed byte count instead of the actual data length when validating the host_name field, leading to an out-of-bounds read when strncmp() attempts to compare data beyond the packet payload. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending malformed short UDP datagrams on already-classified SoftEther flows to trigger the vulnerability with no authentication required.
Affected products
- ntop nDPI through 6.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-26: disclosed