CVE-2026-15506 (GCVE-0-2026-15506)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-12 21:30 – Updated: 2026-07-14 16:35
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
SecureAge CatchPulse Driver saappctl.sys heap-based overflow
Summary
A security vulnerability has been detected in SecureAge CatchPulse up to 10.9.3. The affected element is an unknown function in the library saappctl.sys of the component Driver. Such manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Upgrading to version 10.10.0 is sufficient to fix this issue. You should upgrade the affected component. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-13 18:06 UTC
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/vuln/377835 | vdb-entrytechnical-description |
| https://vuldb.com/vuln/377835/cti | signaturepermissions-required |
| https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-15506 | third-party-advisory |
| https://vuldb.com/submit/845584 | third-party-advisory |
| https://jordanhiggins.blog/catchpulse-antivirus-e… | broken-linkexploit |
| https://github.com/Kalagious/SecureAgeExploit | exploit |
| https://youtu.be/xZqRVWlrah8 | media-coverage |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SecureAge | CatchPulse |
Affected:
10.9.0
Affected: 10.9.1 Affected: 10.9.2 Affected: 10.9.3 Unaffected: 10.10.0 cpe:2.3:a:secureage:catchpulse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.