What is CVE-2026-50216?

CVE-2026-50216 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent, classified under Integer Underflow. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-10-14.

How severe is CVE-2026-50216?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent

CVE-2026-50216

An integer underflow exists in the DNS proxy component of the macOS NetworkExtension system extension shipped with Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) for macOS, whereby if a UDP datagram shorter than 96 bytes that begins with a specific value is received, a subsequent size computation underflows to a near-SIZE_MAX value, causing an allocation failure and uncaught Objective-C exception that aborts the root system extension.

Published 2026-10-14 · last modified 2026-10-14.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-191 — Integer Underflow

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-50216?: CVE-2026-50216 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent, classified under Integer Underflow. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-10-14.
How severe is CVE-2026-50216?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.