Denial of service via crafted push/pull gossip message in memberlist
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 14 fixed, 6 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
HashiCorp memberlist before version 0.6.0 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service issue in its push/pull state handling that may allow an attacker with network access to the gossip port to exhaust memory on a receiving node and cause the process to terminate. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-14362) is fixed in memberlist 0.6.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Shared library (HashiCorp) Fixed in 0.6.0
Red Hat 14 advisories
- RHSA-2026:89839 Released 2026-10-27 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.14.77 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel8, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/egress-router-cni-rhel8, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/kubevirt-csi-driver-rhel8 +47
- RHSA-2026:89715 Released 2026-10-27 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.16.74 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/aws-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/azure-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel9 +47
- RHSA-2026:70587 Released 2026-10-01 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.17.58 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/aws-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/azure-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel9 +47
Show 11 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2026:65852 Released 2026-09-17 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.18.55 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/aws-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-apiserver-network-proxy-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-azure-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9 +19
- RHSA-2026:60390 Released 2026-08-26 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.13.11 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-multicluster-observability-addon-rhel9 +23
- RHSA-2026:60388 Released 2026-08-26 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.14.4 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-multicluster-observability-addon-rhel9 +26
- RHSA-2026:60387 Released 2026-08-26 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.11.11 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-must-gather-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-prometheus-config-reloader-rhel9 +24
- RHSA-2026:60386 Released 2026-08-26 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.17.1 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-multicluster-observability-addon-rhel9 +31
- RHSA-2026:57408 Released 2026-08-26 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.19.44 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-apiserver-network-proxy-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-azure-workload-identity-webhook-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-cli-rhel9 +9
- RHSA-2026:57545 Released 2026-08-25 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.20.35 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-apiserver-network-proxy-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-console-rhel9 +4
- RHSA-2026:57191 Released 2026-08-19 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.16.3 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-prometheus-config-reloader-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-prometheus-rhel9 +15
- RHSA-2026:54770 Released 2026-08-18 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.22.10 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-agent-installer-csr-approver-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-azure-file-csi-driver-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-cluster-image-registry-rhel9-operator +11
- RHSA-2026:54602 Released 2026-08-18 · Red Hat rating ImportantOpenShift Container Platform 4.21.29 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-cli-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9 +6
- RHSA-2026:54427 Released 2026-08-12 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.15.5 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-prometheus-config-reloader-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-prometheus-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/console-rhel9 +9
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60387 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60390 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60388 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:54427 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:57191 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60386 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89839 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:89715 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:70587 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:65852 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:57408 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:57545 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:54602 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:54770 |
Not affected: 25 products
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
- Multicluster Global Hub
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
- Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-14362
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6r3r-6rpf-v429
- 2026-10-29 Fix available: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: RHSA-2026:89839 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: RHSA-2026:89715 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
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- TI-2026-06570 Nomad vulnerable to path traversal in dynamic host volume which may lead to code execution CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2020-17753 The official Consul Docker images 0.7.1 through 1.4.2 contain a blank password for a root… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-13641 consul-mcp-server vulnerable to cross-tenant credential reuse in streamable-HTTP stateless mode CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-13778 terraform-mcp-server vulnerable to cross-tenant credential reuse in streamable-HTTP stateless mode CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-14362 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-14362 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6r3r-6rpf-v429 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-14362 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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