CVE-2026-86845
A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto
- Risk score
- 40/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
References
Original 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.
Last activity 14 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.