Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package memcached-selinux (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-MEMCACHEDSELINUX-16917892
- published28 May 2026
- disclosed20 May 2026
Introduced: 20 May 2026
CVE-2026-47783 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream memcached-selinux package and not the memcached-selinux package as distributed by RHEL.
In memcached before 1.6.42, username data for SASL password database authentication has a timing side channel because a loop exits as soon as a valid username is found by sasl_server_userdb_checkpass.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480089
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-47783
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27842
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:63224
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d13f282b4bce33a9c33b8a1bbf07f12114160fed
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/compare/1.6.41...1.6.42
- https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1642
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27862
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-47783.json