Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-85496 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-85496 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-85496?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.8, published 24 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Botslab G980H <UNKNOWN>.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-85496?
- 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-2026-85496 attacked?
- It is attacked from the adjacent network or over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-85496?
- Check whether you run Botslab G980H 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 firmware uses a small sequential value space for session identifier generation instead of a cryptographically secure random source. An unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access can predict valid session IDs by iterating through the small value space, potentially bypassing authorization controls that rely on session tokens. This is a classic weak randomness vulnerability affecting authentication mechanisms in IoT devices.
Affected products
- Botslab G980H <UNKNOWN>
Timeline
- 2026-09-24: disclosed