CVE-2026-50217

MEDIUM
4.7
CVSS Score
Published: October 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 07:55 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGuardicore Platform Agent

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Severity
MEDIUM4.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows WFP callout driver of Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) allows a local low-privileged user to cause a denial of service (system crash / BSOD) via an outbound ICMPv6 packet containing an IPv6 Hop-by-Hop extension header. When the IPv6 ICMP redirect policy is active, the packet is copied into a buffer that is freed but subsequently passed to a downstream filter. The size of the freed allocation is attacker-controlled (via packet length), enabling kernel pool grooming. Exploitation requires that the non-default IPv6 ICMP capture/redirect policy is enabled for the endpoint.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

4.7MEDIUMmitre
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-416

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