CVE-2026-6862 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-6862: Efivar: efivar: denial of service due to stack overflow in device path node parsing

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Weakness CWE-674
Published April 22, 2026
Last update April 22, 2026

CVSS base score

5.5/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in libefiboot, a component of efivar. The device path node parser in libefiboot fails to validate that each node's Length field is at least 4 bytes, which is the minimum size for an EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) device path node header. A local user could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted device path node. This can lead to infinite recursion, causing stack exhaustion and a process crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 22, 2026 CVE published
April 22, 2026 Record updated