Critical

UEFI Firmware Parser has a stack out-of-bounds write in tiano decompressor MakeTable

  • Disclosed: 16.04.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 14:17

uefi-firmware contains a stack out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the native tiano/EFI decompressor. in uefi_firmware/compression/Tiano/Decompress.c, MakeTable() does not validate that bit-length values read from the compressed bitstream are within the expected range (0..16). a crafted firmware blob can supply bit lengths greater than 16, causing out-of-bounds writes to the stack-allocated Count[17] array and related decode tables.

reachability is through the normal parsing path: CompressedSection.process() -> efi_compressor.TianoDecompress() -> TianoDecompress() -> ReadPTLen() -> MakeTable().

Minimum impact is a deterministic crash; depending on build/runtime details, the stack memory corruption may be exploitable for code execution in the context of the parsing process. this project shipped its own copy of the decompressor without the upstream EDK2 hardening for this bug class.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) uefi-firmware <= 1.12 no fix

References

CVSS score 9.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-787
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
uefi-firmware
Disclosed
16.04.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 14:17

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-3393 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-2689-5p89-6j3j - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: uefi-firmware

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
2
First → latest
04.2026 04.2026
Without a fix
2
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2026: 2
  1. UEFI Firmware Parser has a stack out-of-bounds write in tiano decompressor MakeTable this entry
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-54333 <= 1.12 no fix

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