CVE-2026-85509

high Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 68% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: September 4, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last Modified: September 4, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in FreeIPMI. This vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow in the _read_fru_data function, which occurs when a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) returns more bytes than requested. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted response, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

CWE

CWE-121

Affected Products

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

References

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