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🛡️ CVE-2026-20488 — mt6991-firmware

🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-125 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
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Description

In display, there is a possible information disclosure due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local information disclosure if a malicious actor has already obtained the System privilege. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS11004276; Issue ID: MSV-7757.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-20488 is classified as CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read. The code reads past the limits of a buffer, exposing adjacent memory contents or crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2026-20488 is recorded against 17 packages.

  • mt6991-firmware
  • mt6993-firmware
  • mt8126-firmware
  • mt8171-firmware
  • mt8188-firmware
  • mt8189-firmware
  • mt8367-firmware
  • mt8668-firmware
  • mt8676-firmware
  • mt8678-firmware
  • mt8766-firmware
  • mt8768-firmware
  • mt8781-firmware
  • mt8786-firmware
  • mt8791t-firmware
  • mt8799-firmware
  • mt8910-firmware

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2026 and last revised on 19 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.mediatek.com

Other advisories for this package

mt6991-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mt6991-firmware
mt6993-firmware
mt8126-firmware
mt8171-firmware
mt8188-firmware
mt8189-firmware
mt8367-firmware
mt8668-firmware
mt8676-firmware
mt8678-firmware
mt8766-firmware
mt8768-firmware
mt8781-firmware
mt8786-firmware
mt8791t-firmware
mt8799-firmware
mt8910-firmware

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