CVE-2026-47784

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 75% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: May 20, 2026 (50 days ago)
Last Modified: May 20, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in memcached. This vulnerability involves a timing side channel during SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) password database authentication. A remote attacker could potentially exploit the timing differences in the password verification process to infer sensitive password data. This could lead to unauthorized access to the memcached instance.

CWE

CWE-208

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Hardened Images

References

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