CVE-2026-8718

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8718
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8718.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-8718
Aliases
  • GHSA-p3r6-mx6c-33gq
Published
2026-08-10T22:40:26Z
Modified
2026-10-25T02:47:27Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Out-of-bounds write in DTLS peer Connection ID getsockopt (`TLS_DTLS_PEER_CID_VALUE`) in Zephyr net sockets/TLS
Details

tls_opt_dtls_peer_connection_id_value_get() in subsys/net/lib/sockets/sockets_tls.c, which handles getsockopt(SOL_TLS, TLS_DTLS_PEER_CID_VALUE), passed the caller-supplied optval directly to mbedtls_ssl_get_peer_cid() without verifying the buffer was at least MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_OUT_LEN_MAX (default 32) bytes. mbedtls_ssl_get_peer_cid() copies the peer-negotiated DTLS Connection ID (length 1..MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_OUT_LEN_MAX) into that buffer without a destination-size parameter, so a caller-supplied optlen smaller than the CID causes a write of up to 31 bytes past the buffer end.

In CONFIG_USERSPACE builds the getsockopt syscall verifier (z_vrfy_zsock_getsockopt) bounce-buffers the user's optval into a kernel allocation of exactly optlen bytes (k_usermode_alloc_from_copy -> z_thread_malloc), so an unprivileged user thread that passes a small optlen on a connected DTLS socket with Connection ID enabled induces a kernel-heap buffer overflow, with the overflowing content being the remote peer's CID.

The defect requires CONFIG_MBEDTLS_SSL_DTLS_CONNECTION_ID, an established DTLS session with a negotiated peer CID, and (for the kernel-crossing case) CONFIG_USERSPACE. Introduced when the TLS_DTLS_CID option was added (v3.5.0).

The fix rejects callers whose optlen is below MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_OUT_LEN_MAX with -EINVAL.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "zephyr",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-787"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8718.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Events
Database specific
Show details
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    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.5.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "4.4.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandardRange"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "aa317825a55a401315e8e17f620c70c02e8f176d"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.5.0
v3.6.0
v3.6.0-rc1
v3.6.0-rc2
v3.6.0-rc3
v3.7.0
v3.7.0-rc1
v3.7.0-rc2
v3.7.0-rc3
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.0-rc1
v4.0.0-rc2
v4.0.0-rc3
v4.1.0
v4.1.0-rc1
v4.1.0-rc2
v4.1.0-rc3
v4.2.0
v4.2.0-rc1
v4.2.0-rc2
v4.2.0-rc3
v4.3.0
v4.3.0-rc1
v4.3.0-rc2
v4.3.0-rc3
v4.4.0
v4.4.0-rc1
v4.4.0-rc2
v4.4.0-rc3
v4.4.1-rc1
zephyr-v3.*
zephyr-v3.5.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8718.json"