High severity · published Sep 15, 2026
CVE-2026-85234
Tftp: tftp-hpa: denial of service due to out-of-bounds read/write in remap engine
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in tftp-hpa. When the `in.tftpd` remap engine processes an inverse remap rule that also aborts with a non-empty custom error message, it can pass invalid match offsets to the `genmatchstring()` function. This leads to out-of-bounds read/write operations. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request, causing the daemon to crash and resulting in a denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85234
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85234
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:78952
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80663
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82280
vdb-entry
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-85234
issue-tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460997
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/tftp/tftp-hpa.git/commit/?id=4b493532f5ce052a1c124acd0661233ec7918327
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