Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain local low-privileged foothold
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DeliverySupply crafted input to Connext Core Library
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ExploitTrigger integer overflow (CWE-190) wrapping size calc
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ExecutionManipulate shared resource via broken access control
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ImpactCompromise confidentiality/integrity/availability of DDS process
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Integer overflow checks
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires LOCAL access to a host running RTI Connext Professional Core Libraries (AV:L) with an existing LOW-privileged authenticated context (PR:L), plus HIGH attack complexity (AC:H) meaning the attacker must satisfy specific, hard-to-control conditions to reliably wrap the vulnerable integer calculation. No user interaction is needed (UI:N). Exploitation is bounded to the affected version ranges: 7.4.0 up to (not including) 7.7.0.1, 7.0.0 up to 7.3.1.6, and the 6.1.0 6.1.x branch. The limiting factors - local-only vector, prerequisite low-privilege foothold, and non-trivial trigger conditions - mean this is realistically a post-compromise privilege/resource escalation on DDS-participant hosts rather than a remotely reachable flaw. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but access-gated issue, not a drop-everything remote emergency. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N) is the critical distinguisher from the other RTI Connext advisories in this batch (CVE-2026-7866, -18457, -18459, -18461), which are all network-vector (AV:N) unauthenticated flaws - THIS one requires LOCAL access, LOW privileges, and HIGH attack complexity, materially lowering real-world exploitability despite the high VC/VI/VA impact triad. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC are provided, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The 7.3 score is driven almost entirely by the full high-impact triad (VC:H/VI:H/VA:H via shared-resource manipulation), while the AC:H and AV:L metrics cap it below the network siblings. Net: a legitimate patch priority for defense/robotics/autonomous-systems operators running Connext, but real-world risk is constrained to attackers who already have a local low-privileged foothold and can meet the complex trigger conditions of an integer overflow - targeted post-compromise escalation rather than mass exploitation. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a low-privileged local account on a host running RTI Connext Professional crafts input that triggers an integer overflow (CWE-190) in the Core Libraries, wrapping a size/bounds calculation to manipulate a shared resource. Because the flaw combines the overflow with improper access control over that shared resource, successful exploitation can corrupt or hijack the resource to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Connext process. No public exploit code is identified, and the AC:H rating indicates the overflow requires specific, hard-to-control conditions to trigger reliably. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 22, 2026
Integer overflow combined with improper access control in the core libraries of RTI Connext Professional (versions 7.4.0 before 7.7.0.1, 7.0.0 before 7.3.1.6, and the 6.1.0 6.1.x branch) allows manipulation of shared resources, giving an attacker high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected host. Exploitation is not remote: it requires local access to a host running the Connext core libraries plus an existing low-privileged authenticated context, and the trigger conditions are hard to control (high attack complexity), so this is realistically a post-compromise privilege/resource escalation on DDS-participant hosts rather than a remotely reachable flaw. No CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code were identified for this issue at time of analysis. This is a genuine but access-gated issue, not a drop-everything remote emergency.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Connext Professional 7.7.0.1 for the 7.4.x line and 7.3.1.6 for the 7.0.x line; for the 6.1.x branch the exact fixed build is not specified in the available data, so the vendor advisory at https://www.rti.com/vulnerabilities/#cve-2026-18462 should be consulted for the current patched release before assuming a version is safe. Until upgrading is possible, the most effective control is to shrink the local attack surface that this issue depends on: enforce least privilege and remove or tightly audit interactive/local accounts on hosts running Connext core libraries (trade-off: added operational friction for legitimate administrators and daemons), and restrict physical/console and remote-shell access to DDS participant hosts via host firewalling and jump-host controls (trade-off: reduces convenience for operators who currently log in directly). Where RTI Connext DDS Security plugins are licensed and deployable, enabling participant authentication and access control can constrain cross-participant resource manipulation, but it requires PKI/certificate provisioning and management and adds handshake and per-message overhead. Because exploitation requires high complexity and a pre-existing low-privileged foothold, priority should be given to detecting and suppressing that initial foothold (e.g., monitoring for privilege-escalation attempts and unexpected DDS participant joins) rather than treating this as an internet-facing patch emergency.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is rooted in CWE-190 (Integer Overflow or Wraparound) in the RTI Connext Professional Core Libraries, the middleware layer that implements the OMG DDS publish/subscribe data bus, discovery, and shared resource management used by distributed real-time applications. Because a wraparound in an internal size/count computation can be reached through operations the attacker is authorized to perform, the integer defect is paired with improper access control and escalates into shared resource manipulation - meaning a low-privileged local actor can bend data structures that should be isolated between DDS participants, users, or processes. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:rti:connext_professional identifies the affected product family; the assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (the vendor-reported CVSS 4.0 vector is AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N with high VC/VI/VA and no subsequent-system impact) confirms the attack surface is local, unauthenticated users are not sufficient, no user interaction is required, and the win condition depends on satisfying specific, hard-to-control conditions to reliably wrap the vulnerable arithmetic. There is no scope change and no evidence of a remotely reachable path in the available data.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Local vector and low-priv foothold (AV:L/PR:L), AC:H because triggering the integer overflow needs specific uncontrolled conditions; shared-resource manipulation yields full C/I/A impact with no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (RTI).
CVSS VectorVendor: RTI
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
Integer Overflow or Wraparound, Improper Access Control vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Shared Resource Manipulation. This issue affects Connext Professional: from 7.4.0 before 7.7.0.1, from 7.0.0 before 7.3.1.6, from 6.1.0 before 6.1.*.
Executive ViewAI
A memory-safety and access-control flaw in the core libraries of RTI Connext Professional (7.4.0 up to 7.7.0.1, 7.0.0 up to 7.3.1.6, and the 6.1.x branch) allows manipulation of shared resources and can fully degrade confidentiality, integrity and availability on an affected host. Exploitation is not remote: it requires pre-existing local access to a host running Connext plus attack conditions that are hard to control, making this a post-compromise escalation risk on DDS participant machines rather than an internet-facing emergency. Leadership should care because Connext commonly underpins real-time data exchange in industrial, defense, robotics and medical environments, where tampering with a participant can cascade into disrupted operational processes.
No vendor-released patch was identified at time of analysis, so apply layered interim mitigations: enforce least privilege and remove or tightly scope local accounts on hosts running the Connext core libraries, restrict local/interactive logon to DDS participant machines to essential administrators and service identities, segment DDS participants into dedicated network zones with restrictive east-west rules, monitor and alert on anomalous shared-resource manipulation, privilege escalation and unexpected process interactions on participant hosts, and maintain immutable/offline backups and recovery procedures for affected systems so a compromise does not become a permanent loss of availability.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Integer overflow occurs when an arithmetic operation produces a result that exceeds the maximum value a given integer type can store.
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EUVD-2026-84617
GHSA-9743-6h37-2w2g
NVD
CVE.org
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