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CVE-2026-82079 (GCVE-0-2026-82079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-10 05:13 – Updated: 2026-09-10 14:56

Title

Potential Leakage of Nintendo Switch System Information Through a Proximity-Based Remote Attack

Summary

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Nintendo Switch local wireless networking functionality may allow an attacker within wireless range to execute arbitrary code using return-oriented programming (ROP) through crafted network traffic. This issue affects Nintendo Switch: before 23.0.0.

Severity

8.4 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-10 14:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based buffer overflow

Assigner

Nintendo jpcert root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.nintendo.com/security-advisories/en/i…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Nintendo	Nintendo Switch	Affected: 0 , < 23.0.0 (custom)	guessed

Date Public

2026-09-10 05:00

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FKIE_CVE-2026-82079

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-10 06:17 - Updated: 2026-09-10 15:17

Severity

8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	60e0823a-f1a8-4923-bd51-812de398c42c	https://www.nintendo.com/security-advisories/en/index.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-CCJ4-6GQ7-582F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-10 06:31 – Updated: 2026-09-10 15:33

Details

Severity

8.4 (High)


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

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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CVE-2026-82079 (GCVE-0-2026-82079)

FKIE_CVE-2026-82079

GHSA-CCJ4-6GQ7-582F

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