Malformed Valkey Cluster bus message can lead to Remote DoS
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.8%
exploitation probability
0.8%top 46% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to versions 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12, a malicious actor with access to the Valkey clusterbus port can send an invalid packet that may cause an out bound read, which might result in the system crashing. The Valkey clusterbus packet processing code does not validate that a clusterbus ping extension packet is located within buffer of the clusterbus packet before attempting to read it. Versions 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12 fix the issue. As an additional mitigation, don't expose the cluster bus connection directly to end users, and protect the connection with its own network ACLs.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
valkey-io · valkeyReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3443https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3507https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5445https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8753https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-21863https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442026https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/security/advisories/GHSA-c677-q3wr-gggqhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-21863.json