CVE-2026-86845
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CVE-2026-86845 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
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Affected Software
Source: CNA advisory (CVE.org). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Fast Datapath for RHEL 10 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) | All versions |
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
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