CVE-2026-21863CWE-125

Malformed Valkey Cluster bus message can lead to Remote DoS

High · published February 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to versions 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12, a malicious actor with access to the Valkey clusterbus port can send an invalid packet that may cause an out bound read, which might result in the system crashing. The Valkey clusterbus packet processing code does not validate that a clusterbus ping extension packet is located within buffer of the clusterbus packet before attempting to read it. Versions 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12 fix the issue. As an additional mitigation, don't expose the cluster bus connection directly to end users, and protect the connection with its own network ACLs.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00848 · 57.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-02-23T19:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 FEB 19:41Z
    Malformed Valkey Cluster bus message can lead to Remote DoS
    cvelistv5