MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-6862
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).
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 5.5
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-6862
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-04-22T14:17:08.060
- last_modified
- 2026-09-01T09:16:46.470
Related Entities (3)
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Uncontrolled Recursion
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
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