CVE-2026-86845

MEDIUMCVSS 6.5

Description

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Session cleanup can leave a stale cached session pointer, and the data path does not check the session type before attaching it, leading to use-after-free or type confusion in the host vhost-crypto backend.

Timeline

Published:October 14th, 2026 6:19 PM

Last modified:October 15th, 2026 3:17 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-825

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86845
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529844

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