CVE-2026-3608 (GCVE-0-2026-3608)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 08:46 – Updated: 2026-07-15 01:02
VLAI
Title
Stack overflow in Kea daemons
Summary
Sending a maliciously crafted message to the kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons over any configured API socket or HA listener can cause the receiving daemon to exit with a stack overflow error. This issue affects Kea versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.4 and 3.0.0 through 3.0.2.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-25 13:26 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ISC Kea Affected: 2.6.0 , ≤ 2.6.4 (custom)
Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.2 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:isc:kea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:isc:kea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Unaffected: 0:3.0.1-3.el10_1 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:2.6.3-2.el10_0.3 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0
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Date Public
2026-03-25 00:00
Credits
ISC would like to thank Ali Norouzi of Keysight for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.
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