Security Advisory

CVE-2026-71217

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-11 08:50:10
Last updated 2026-08-11 16:11:15
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted control-channel JSON with oversized numeric parameters, such as `parallel` and `len`, which are not properly validated by the server. This improper input validation can lead to excessive stream and thread creation, as well as large buffer allocations, causing resource exhaustion. Consequently, this can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) on the affected iperf3 server.