CVE-2026-71218: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `JSON_read()` function, which accepts a peer-controlled message length and allocates memory without an upper bound. This allows the attacker to trigger excessive memory consumption, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) through memory exhaustion, severe slowdown, or termination of the iperf3 service.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Published 2026-08-11. Last modified 2026-08-14.