# CVE-2026-54333: UEFI Firmware Parser: Stack out-of-bounds write in tiano decompressor MakeTable

- Also known as: GHSA-2689-5P89-6J3J, PYSEC-2026-3393
- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.14
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- theopolis uefi-firmware-parser: fixed in 1.14
- uefi-firmware (PyPI): through 1.12

## Description

UEFI Firmware Parser parses BIOS, Intel ME, and UEFI firmware structures including volumes, file systems, and files. Prior to 1.14, MakeTable() in uefi_firmware/compression/Tiano/Decompress.c does not validate that bit-length values read from a crafted Tiano or EFI compressed firmware bitstream remain within the expected range from 0 through 16. The normal CompressedSection.process() to efi_compressor.TianoDecompress() to TianoDecompress() to ReadPTLen() to MakeTable() parsing path can consequently write beyond the stack-allocated Count[17] array and related decode tables. The resulting stack corruption deterministically crashes the parsing process and may permit code execution depending on build and runtime details. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on theopolis uefi-firmware-parser, uefi-firmware, upgrade to a fixed version (1.14) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/theopolis/uefi-firmware-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-2689-5p89-6j3j
- https://github.com/theopolis/uefi-firmware-parser/pull/145
- https://github.com/theopolis/uefi-firmware-parser/commit/bf3dfaa8a05675bae6ea0cbfa082ddcebfcde23e
- https://github.com/theopolis/uefi-firmware-parser/releases/tag/v1.14

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