CVE-2026-47784 (GCVE-0-2026-47784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-20 05:45 – Updated: 2026-05-20 12:21
VLAI
Summary
In memcached before 1.6.42, password data for SASL password database authentication has a timing side channel because memcmp is used by sasl_server_userdb_checkpass.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
memcached memcached Affected: 0 , < 1.6.42 (semver)
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