CVE-2026-82079Potential Leakage of Nintendo Switch System Information Through a Proximity-Based Remote Attack
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.0 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-121
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Nintendo
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 11, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Nintendo Nintendo Switch nintendo:switch (from the name) | before 23.0.0 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.nintendo.com/security-advisories/en/index.html
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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