CVE-2026-2291

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 77% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Published: May 9, 2026 (62 days ago)
Last Modified: May 9, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Fix Available: ✓ Yes
Source: REDHAT

Description

dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.

CWE

CWE-131

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Fix Status

✅ Fix Available

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov