CVE-2026-49841 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-49841: FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication heap buffer overflow in `mod_verto` HTTP POST body read

Vendor Signalwire
Product freeswitch
Weakness CWE-122
Published June 9, 2026
Last update June 11, 2026

CVSS base score

9.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to version 1.11.1, the mod_verto HTTP request handler allocates a fixed 2 MiB buffer for a POST application/x-www-form-urlencoded body but accepts Content-Length up to just under 10 MiB. The body-read loop is bounded by Content-Length rather than the buffer size, producing an attacker-controlled heap overflow of up to ~8 MiB -- before the HTTP basic-auth check runs. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2026 CVE published
June 11, 2026 Record updated