What is CVE-2026-6844?

CVE-2026-6844 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-04-22.

How severe is CVE-2026-6844?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Gnu Binutils

CVE-2026-6844

A flaw was found in the `readelf` utility of the binutils package. A local attacker could exploit two Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities by providing a specially crafted Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file. One vulnerability, a…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.000 (5.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gnu Binutils
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Hardened Images
Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Redhat Hardened_images
Redhat Openshift_container_platform — versions 4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-6844?: CVE-2026-6844 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-04-22.
How severe is CVE-2026-6844?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.