# Hashcat vulnerabilities

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/hashcat  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Updated: 11 November 2026, 22:07 UTC. Rebuilt every hour.  
Data: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/hashcat.json  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 6 vulnerabilities in Hashcat: 0 in the last 7 days and 3 in the last 90 days, 3 of them critical and 0 exploited in the wild. The most recent, CVE-2026-68768, was published on 22 August 2026. Nothing was published in the last eight weeks.

## Counts

- Last 7 days: 0
- Last 30 days: 0
- Last 90 days: 3
- All time: 6 (3 critical, 0 exploited in the wild)

## About Hashcat

hashcat is a command-line tool for recovering passwords through various hashing and cryptanalysis techniques.

## Latest Hashcat vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2026-68768: hashcat heap-based buffer overflow in outfile_write](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-68768-hashcat-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-outfile-write) (medium, CVSS 6.1, published 22 Aug 2026)
- [CVE-2026-68767: hashcat out-of-bounds heap write in fgetl() function](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-68767-hashcat-out-of-bounds-heap-write-in-fgetl-function) (medium, CVSS 6.1, published 22 Aug 2026)
- [CVE-2026-68766: hashcat command injection via restore file parsing](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-68766-hashcat-command-injection-via-restore-file-parsing) (high, CVSS 7.8, published 22 Aug 2026)
- [CVE-2026-42484: A heap-based buffer overflow in hex_to_binary in the PKZIP hash parser in hashcat v7.1.2 allows an attacker to cause a…](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-42484-a-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-hex-to-binary-in-the-pkzip-hash) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 1 May 2026)
- [CVE-2026-42483: A heap-based buffer overflow in the Kerberos hash parser in hashcat v7.1.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of…](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-42483-a-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-the-kerberos-hash-parser-in) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 1 May 2026)
- [CVE-2026-42482: A stack-based buffer overflow in mangle_to_hex_lower() and mangle_to_hex_upper() in src/rp_cpu.c in hashcat v7.1.2…](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-42482-a-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-mangle-to-hex-lower-and-mangle) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 1 May 2026)

## Most severe Hashcat vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2026-42484: A heap-based buffer overflow in hex_to_binary in the PKZIP hash parser in hashcat v7.1.2 allows an attacker to cause a…](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-42484-a-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-hex-to-binary-in-the-pkzip-hash) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 1 May 2026)
- [CVE-2026-42482: A stack-based buffer overflow in mangle_to_hex_lower() and mangle_to_hex_upper() in src/rp_cpu.c in hashcat v7.1.2…](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-42482-a-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-mangle-to-hex-lower-and-mangle) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 1 May 2026)
- [CVE-2026-42483: A heap-based buffer overflow in the Kerberos hash parser in hashcat v7.1.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of…](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-42483-a-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-the-kerberos-hash-parser-in) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 1 May 2026)
- [CVE-2026-68766: hashcat command injection via restore file parsing](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-68766-hashcat-command-injection-via-restore-file-parsing) (high, CVSS 7.8, published 22 Aug 2026)
- [CVE-2026-68768: hashcat heap-based buffer overflow in outfile_write](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-68768-hashcat-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-outfile-write) (medium, CVSS 6.1, published 22 Aug 2026)
- [CVE-2026-68767: hashcat out-of-bounds heap write in fgetl() function](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-68767-hashcat-out-of-bounds-heap-write-in-fgetl-function) (medium, CVSS 6.1, published 22 Aug 2026)

## Vulnerabilities per week

Nothing was published in the last eight weeks.

| Week of | Vulns | Critical | Exploited |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources

NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories. Rebuilt every hour. Cite as: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, "Hashcat vulnerabilities", https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/hashcat, 11 November 2026.