CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-80791

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 4, 2026Sources checked Oct 28, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-80791. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 7, 2026

See the Microsoft Security Update Guide for the update that applies to your product.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-80791?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer

nvmet_execute_auth_receive() allocates the response buffer with kmalloc() sized by the host-supplied AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length, but the DH-HMAC-CHAP builders write only a fixed-size message into it.

The full allocation length is then copied to the wire by nvmet_copy_to_sgl(), so a remote initiator receives the bytes past the built message -- up to nearly a page of uninitialized slab -- during the pre-authentication handshake.

Allocate the buffer with kzalloc() so the unwritten tail is zeroed before it is sent; conforming responses are unaffected.

Source: NVD