CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-47783
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-09-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-208
Description
In memcached before 1.6.42, username data for SASL password database authentication has a timing side channel because a loop exits as soon as a valid username is found by sasl_server_userdb_checkpass.
Affected configurations
• memcached memcached (< 1.6.42)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy weakness
References
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d13f282b4bce33a9c33b8a1bbf07f12114160fed Patch
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/compare/1.6.41...1.6.42 Release Notes
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1642 Release Notes
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27842 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27862 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-47783 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480089 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-47783.json security.access.redhat.com