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The TFTP server can serve the wrong file contents because a recently used transfer cache is not invalidated when a transfer finishes. An attacker on the local network who can request a TFTP file may cause a later client to receive previously cached data instead of the requested file. In PXE network-boot environments this can substitute attacker-chosen boot content for a victim machine."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Ceph Storage 9","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"rhceph/alloy-rhel10","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:9"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"dnsmasq","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"dnsmasq","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"dnsmasq","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"dnsmasq","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"dnsmasq","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel8","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel9","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"openshift5/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel9","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"dnsmasq","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13"]},{"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","packageName":"rhoso-operators/infra-rhel9-operator","defaultStatus":"affected","cpes":["cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:18.0"]}],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93006","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536075","name":"RHBZ#2536075","tags":["issue-tracking","x_refsource_REDHAT"]}],"datePublic":"2026-10-28T09:32:00.000Z","problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-672","description":"Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}]}],"x_redhatCweChain":"CWE-672: Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release","workarounds":[{"lang":"en","value":"The following measures reduce risk:\n\n1. If TFTP is not required, do not enable it. Remove --enable-tftp from the dnsmasq configuration.\n2. If TFTP is required, restrict it with --tftp-interface=<interface> and avoid running TFTP-only instances that serve untrusted clients on the same network.\n3. Compile without TFTP support using COPTS=-DNO_TFTP if TFTP is not needed."}],"timeline":[{"lang":"en","time":"2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z","value":"Reported to Red Hat."},{"lang":"en","time":"2026-10-28T09:32:00.000Z","value":"Made public."}],"credits":[{"lang":"en","value":"Red Hat would like to thank Shubham Raj (Causal Security) for reporting this issue."}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749","shortName":"redhat","dateUpdated":"2026-10-30T01:16:56.129Z"},"x_generator":{"engine":"cvelib 1.8.0"}}}}