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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Supported Versions

The following versions of the BACnet Stack C library are currently being supported with security updates.

Version Supported
1.5.x
1.4.x
1.3.x
1.2.x
1.1.x
1.0.x
0.9.x
0.8.x
0.7.x
< 0.6.x

Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

Vulnerabilites are disclosed to CVE or GHSA and a record is created to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Here are the published vulnerability records:

CVE-2026-40279 - Undefined-behavior signed left shift in decode_signed32() GHSA-326g-j95f-gmxv

CVE-2026-41503 - Out-of-Bounds Read in ReadPropertyMultiple Property Decoder via Deprecated Tag Parser GHSA-5w2v-mwqj-pr2c

CVE-2026-41502 - Off-by-One Out-of-Bounds Read in ReadPropertyMultiple Object ID Decoder GHSA-7545-3fpx-4xw3

CVE-2026-41475 - Out-of-Bounds Read in WritePropertyMultiple Decoder via Deprecated Tag Parser GHSA-cvv4-v3g6-4jmv

CVE-2026-26264 - WriteProperty decoding length underflow leads to OOB read and crash GHSA-phjh-v45p-gmjj

CVE-2026-21870 - Off-by-one Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tokenizer_string GHSA-pc83-wp6w-93mx

CVE-2026-21878 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory GHSA-p8rx-c26w-545j

CVE-2025-66624 - BACnet-stack MS/TP reply matcher OOB read GHSA-8wgw-5h6x-qgqg

CVE-2023-38341 - Multiple out-of-bounds accesses in bacerror code paths #81

CVE-2023-38340 - Out of bounds accesses in bacnet_npdu_decode #80

CVE-2023-38339 - Out of bounds jump in h_apdu.c:apdu_handler #79

CVE-2019-12480 - Invalid read in bacserv when decoding alarm tags #62

CVE-2018-10238 - Segmentation fault leading to denial of service #61

Reporting a Vulnerability

Privately discuss, fix, and publish information about security vulnerabilities in this library using Github Security Advisories: https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/security/advisories/new

Alternatively, vulnerabilities can be reported using "issues" at Github. https://github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/issues

Learn more about advisories related to bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack in the GitHub Advisory Database