Sending a maliciously crafted message to the kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons over any configured API socket or HA listener can cause the receiving daemon to exit with a stack overflow error. This issue affects Kea versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.4 and 3.0.0 through 3.0.2.
CVE-2026-3608
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-03-25. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 70%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 25, 2026
Last Modified
July 15, 2026
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Jul 6, 20262451139 – (CVE-2026-3608) CVE-2026-3608 Kea: Kea: Denial of Service via maliciously crafted message
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451139Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7342Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11344oss-security - ISC has disclosed one vulnerability in Kea (CVE-2026-3608)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/25/6Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-3608(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | python3-kea-connector (2.6.3-2ubuntu0.1) @ questing | 2026-06-30 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kea-0:2.6.3-2.el10_0.3 | 2026-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | kea-0:3.0.1-3.el10_1 | 2026-04-09 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| kea | — | 2.6.5-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| kea | — | 3.0.3-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| kea | — | 3.0.3-r0 | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| isc-kea | 2.2.0-6 ... 3.0.3-3 (22 versions) | — | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| isc-kea | 2.6.3-1 | 2.6.3-1+deb13u1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| isc-kea | 2.6.3-1 ... 3.0.3-1~bpo13+1 (7 versions) | 3.0.3-1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(2)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
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