Threats Tagged 'cve-2026-15812'

This security update for kronosnet addresses three vulnerabilities: improper sanitization of sensitive memory that could expose encryption keys, improper verification of packet origins allowing ACL bypass via ID spoofing, and improper validation during fragment reassembly that may cause memory corruption or out-of-bounds access. These issues could lead to unauthorized access or memory safety problems. The severity is assessed as medium based on the described impacts. No affected versions or patch details are provided in the input data.

A vulnerability was found in kronosnet's (version <=1.34) cryptographic configuration management. The framework does not correctly zero-out or wipe sensitive memory segments after executing changes to its cryptographic configuration. This omission leaves raw encryption keys resident in memory after the associated structures are freed. A local attacker capable of leveraging memory disclosure techniques could exploit this flaw to retrieve the active encryption key, allowing them to decrypt cluster network communications or inject malicious packets to cause severe high-availability cluster instability.

A vulnerability was found in the internal Access Control List (ACL) subsystem of kronosnet (Version affected: <= 1.34). When the framework is explicitly configured to manage dynamic links (accepting network traffic from any IP address) without network payload encryption, the validation architecture implicitly trusts the link ID provided within incoming data packets. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this lack of validation by spoofing a legitimate link ID inside crafted network frames. This allows the attacker to fully bypass the ACL framework and inject arbitrary data packets into the application layer, potentially leading to data corruption or service instabilities.