CVE-2026-86846
Received
Received - Intake
Out-of-Bounds Write in DPDK vhost-crypto Backend
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-86846, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-14
Last updated on: 2026-10-14
Assigner: redhat-SADP
Description
Description
A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. A guest can supply an avail-ring descriptor index that is used without bounds checking, causing an out-of-bounds write in the host vhost-crypto backend.
CVSS Scores
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| Red | Hat | Fast Datapath for RHEL 10 * |
| Red | Hat | Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 * |
| Red | Hat | Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 * |
| Red | Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 * |
| Red | Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 * |
| Red | Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 * |
| Red | Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 * |
| Red | Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-787 | The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. |
