CVE-2020-10726: Dpdk Data Plane Development Kit

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dpdk Data Plane Development Kit: up to and including 19.11
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker: version 3.1.0 only; version 3.2.0 only

Published 2020-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.