# CVE-2020-10726: Denial of service in dpdk

> A malicious container with vhost-user socket access can cause resource leaks leading to denial of service in DPDK.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 20 May 2020
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10726, GHSA-whmr-hj5c-pm9g, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10726

## What is CVE-2020-10726?

CVE-2020-10726 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 20 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 19.11 and above. A malicious container that has direct access to the vhost-user socket can keep sending VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD messages, causing a resource leak (file descriptors and virtual memory), which may result in a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-190 (Integer Overflow or Wraparound)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10726?

It affects 4 products.


Products: Dpdk Data Plane Development Kit, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-10726?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2020-10726 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10726 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora

- [CVE-2020-10725](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10725/): Null dereference in dpdk (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2021-3839](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3839/): Memory corruption in dpdk (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2019-14818](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14818/): Denial of service in dpdk (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2022-0669](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0669/): Denial of service in DPDK (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-10726 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-10726 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 20 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10726 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10726/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10726/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10726
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10726
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10726

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10726/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.