CVE-2026-81666

Corosync: corosync: integer overflow in check_memb_commit_token_sanity may bypass message length validation on 32-bit systems

Published Sep 4, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An integer overflow was found in Corosync's handling of membership commit token messages. The length-validation check for these messages can be bypassed on 32-bit systems due to an integer overflow in the calculation of the expected message length, allowing a crafted network packet to trigger an out-of-bounds memory access that crashes the Corosync daemon. This results in a denial of service for the affected cluster node. The overflow does not occur on 64-bit systems, where the length calculation is correctly performed in 64-bit arithmetic.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

There is no complete mitigation for this vulnerability short of a fix, but the following steps reduce risk: 1. Ensure cluster message authentication is enabled in corosync.conf (crypto_cipher=aes256, crypto_hash=sha256 with a shared key from corosync-keygen), which is the default when clusters are configured via 'pcs cluster setup', and disabling it (cipher=none/hash=none) is an explicitly unsupported configuration per upstream maintainer guidance. 2. Restrict network access to the cluster communication ports (default 5405-5412/UDP) to trusted cluster node addresses only. 3. Where architecturally feasible, prefer 64-bit deployments, since the integer overflow described here does not occur on 64-bit systems.

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel Els
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel Els
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Corosync
Corosync corosync
Redhat openshift Container Platform
Vendors & Products Corosync
Corosync corosync
Redhat openshift Container Platform
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An integer overflow was found in Corosync's handling of membership commit token messages. The length-validation check for these messages can be bypassed on 32-bit systems due to an integer overflow in the calculation of the expected message length, allowing a crafted network packet to trigger an out-of-bounds memory access that crashes the Corosync daemon. This results in a denial of service for the affected cluster node. The overflow does not occur on 64-bit systems, where the length calculation is correctly performed in 64-bit arithmetic.
Title Corosync: corosync: integer overflow in check_memb_commit_token_sanity may bypass message length validation on 32-bit systems
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Weaknesses CWE-190
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Nov 6, 2026, 1:04 AM
Reserved
Aug 27, 2026, 10:38 AM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Sep 4, 2026, 10:17 AM
Modified
Nov 6, 2026, 1:17 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 4, 2026, 8:14 AM