VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2026-5590
A race condition during TCP connection teardown can cause tcp_recv() to operate on a connection that has already been released.
MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.20%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A race condition during TCP connection teardown can cause tcp_recv() to operate on a connection that has already been released. If tcp_conn_search() returns NULL while processing a SYN packet, a NULL pointer derived from stale context data is passed to tcp_backlog_is_full() and dereferenced without validation, leading to a crash.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.20% probability · 10th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- zephyrproject/zephyr
- Source
- vulnerabilities@zephyrproject.org
References
- https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-4vqm-pw24-g9jpExploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.