Infinite loop Affecting zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr package, versions [1.8.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ZEPHYRPROJECTRTOSZEPHYR-18507641
  • published2 Aug 2026
  • disclosed31 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-10686  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop due to the lack of hop-limit decrement in the IPv6 forwarding path. An attacker can cause unbounded packet looping and exhaust CPU or bandwidth resources by inducing or exploiting a transient Layer 3 loop.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1