CVE-2026-86848
Received
Received - Intake
DPDK vhost-crypto Indirect Descriptor Out-of-Bounds Access
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-86848, 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. The indirect-descriptor snapshot double-fetches a guest descriptor next index, allowing a malicious guest to cause an out-of-bounds access in the host 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-367 | The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. |
