CVE-2026-33849
Published: 24 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-33849 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Linkingvision Rapidvms. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 13.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-16 (Memory Protection) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like this buffer overflow via patching as in PR#96, directly eliminating the vulnerability.
Implements memory protection mechanisms such as ASLR, DEP, and stack canaries to prevent unauthorized code execution from buffer overflow exploits.
Enforces validation of inputs to restrict operations within memory buffer bounds, mitigating the improper restriction issue in CWE-119.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Buffer overflow (CWE-119) with AV:N/UI:R enables client-side exploitation for arbitrary code execution (RCE) in rapidvms.
NVD Description
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in linkingvision rapidvms.This issue affects rapidvms: before PR#96.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-33849 is an Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability, classified under CWE-119, affecting the linkingvision rapidvms software. This buffer overflow issue impacts versions of rapidvms prior to the changes introduced in pull request #96.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating it is exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, no privileges required, but necessitating user interaction. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this flaw to achieve high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability violations, potentially leading to remote code execution or system compromise upon successful exploitation.
Mitigation is addressed in the project's GitHub pull request #96 at https://github.com/linkingvision/rapidvms/pull/96, which resolves the issue for affected versions of rapidvms. Security practitioners should ensure deployment of the patched version from this PR to remediate the vulnerability.
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