CVE-2026-74220

HIGHCVSS 8.2

Description

U-Boot before 2026.10-rc5 contains a buffer overflow in nfs_read_reply() function in net/nfs-common.c that allows attackers to corrupt memory by supplying crafted NFS READ reply lengths. A malicious NFS server can exploit signed integer handling to bypass length validation and write far past the destination buffer, crashing the bootloader or corrupting memory.

Timeline

Published:September 29th, 2026 10:18 PM

Last modified:September 30th, 2026 4:40 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 8.2 (HIGH)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-195

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/v2026.07/net/nfs-common.c#L695
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/0bbf09859658b8cc9ac13be41af23b516b8ef69a
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/u-boot-before-2026.10-rc5-buffer-overflow-via-nfs-read-reply

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute