THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-6862 (MEDIUM 5.5) — 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 e
[NVD] CVE-2026-6862 (MEDIUM 5.5) — 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 e
CVE-2026-6862 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-04-22T14:17:08.060
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 cr
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- CVE-2026-6862cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6862