Medium severity · published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-93683
Dpdk: dpdk: guest-triggered out-of-bounds walk via vhost indirect descriptor length toctou
6.4
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the DPDK vhost library. When handling a virtio indirect descriptor table, the host reads the table length more than once from guest memory and can allocate a host copy before validating that length. A guest that changes the length between those reads, or that supplies an out-of-range next index on a small host copy in the vDPA relay path, can cause the host vhost process to walk past the validated mapping or heap copy. That can crash or disrupt the vhost process. Out-of-bounds bytes are consumed as descriptor fields for GPA translation and are not returned to the guest as payload. This is a residual issue in the non-contiguous indirect descriptor copy path introduced as part of the CVE-2018-1059 fix.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 1% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FD
Fast Datapath for RHEL 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
FD
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
FD
Fast Datapath for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · 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
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93683
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93683
vdb-entry
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93683
issue-tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537015
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