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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