CVE-2026-50216: CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent
Description
An integer underflow exists in the DNS proxy component of the macOS NetworkExtension system extension shipped with Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) for macOS, whereby if a UDP datagram shorter than 96 bytes that begins with a specific value is received, a subsequent size computation underflows to a near-SIZE_MAX value, causing an allocation failure and uncaught Objective-C exception that aborts the root system extension.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.3medium
Affected software
Akamai
Guardicore Platform Agent
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- mitre
- Date Reserved
- 2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Is Cloud Service
- true
Threat ID: 6acf14402cdf04f6564746d6
Added to database: 10/14/2026, 05:33:52 UTC
Last updated: 10/14/2026, 05:33:52 UTC
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