Reachable Assertion Affecting isc-projects/kea package, versions [2.6.0,2.6.5)[3.0.0,3.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.36% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ISCPROJECTSKEA-15871038
  • published1 Apr 2026
  • disclosed25 Mar 2026
  • creditAli Norouzi

Introduced: 25 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-3608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade isc-projects/kea to version 2.6.5, 3.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reachable Assertion in the kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons in any configured API socket or HA listener. An attacker can cause a stack overflow error, resulting in the daemon exiting and service disruption by sending specially crafted network messages.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1