Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-48137

Critical

Published: 19 June 2026

Published
19 June 2026
Modified
25 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 9.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0055 41.9th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-48137 is a critical-severity Untrusted Pointer Dereference (CWE-822) vulnerability in Ni Instrumentstudio. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 41.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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Vulnerability details

There is an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability in the NI grpc-device sideband streaming API that may allow an attacker to cause an arbitrary memory dereference, potentially resulting in remote code execution. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to supply a specially…

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crafted Moniker protobuf message. This affects NI grpc-device 2.17.0 and prior versions.

CWE(s)
CWE-822

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Untrusted pointer dereference in exposed gRPC API allows remote supply of crafted protobuf leading directly to arbitrary memory dereference and RCE.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

ni
instrumentstudio
2026 · ≤ 2025
ni
ni grpc device server
≤ 2.18.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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