CVE-2026-10774
LowCVSS 2.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs
Summary
In Zephyr's Bluetooth Mesh subnet key management, one PSA Crypto key slot leaks on every subnet-key teardown. net_keys_create() imports the Private Beacon Key into a PSA key slot, but subnet_keys_destroy() guarded psa_destroy_key() with CONFIG_BT_MESH_V1d1, which was removed, so the slot is never freed. With the default 16 slots, after roughly 12 add/delete or key-refresh cycles the slot pool is exhausted, preventing new subnet creation and causing errors for other PSA Crypto consumers.
Risk Assessment
Exhaustion of PSA Crypto key slots leads to denial of service (DoS) for Bluetooth Mesh functions, preventing subnet addition and key refresh, potentially disrupting Mesh network operation until device reboot.
Recommendation
Apply the fix that changes the guard in subnet_keys_destroy() to CONFIG_BT_MESH_PRIV_BEACONS to free the slot. Update Zephyr to a version containing this fix.
Other vulnerabilities in Zephyr
See all- CVE-2026-10772Unknown
This CVE has been rejected as a duplicate. The described vulnerability involved incorrect permission checking in the Bluetooth GATT notify/indicate paths in the Zephyr stack, but was already reported as CVE-2026-2411.
- CVE-2026-10676Unknown
CVE-2026-10676 has been withdrawn as analysis determined that the reported defect is not reachable in any released version of Zephyr. In every supported release, the affected value is corrected before use.
- CVE-2026-5067Critical
Zephyr OS has a memory corruption vulnerability in the HTTP server WebSocket upgrade path. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger it by sending a crafted Sec-WebSocket-Key header. The bounded copy does not guarantee NUL termination, leading to out-of-bounds read/write on stack.
- CVE-2026-18415Medium
The ieee802154_send() function in Zephyr's network stack copies an outgoing packet into a fixed 125-byte transmit buffer without validating its length. When 6LoWPAN fragmentation is enabled but not required, the missing size check allows an out-of-bounds write past the buffer. The flaw is reachable through NET_AF_PACKET sockets bound to an 802.15.4 interface, including from an unprivileged application thread in CONFIG_USERSPACE builds.
- CVE-2026-15890Medium
A vulnerability in the PSA Internal Trusted Storage module in Zephyr involves a lack of synchronization in nonce generation for AEAD encryption. The function secure_storage_its_transform_aead_get_nonce() uses unsynchronized function-local static variables, and concurrent writes to the same UID can lead to nonce reuse with the same key. This causes a catastrophic AEAD failure, enabling data leakage and forgery of stored entries.
- CVE-2026-17050Medium
The experimental USB host stack in Zephyr contains a double-free vulnerability in the configuration descriptor buffer. On three error paths, the buffer is freed but the pointer is left dangling, leading to a second free during cleanup. The vulnerability can be triggered by a malicious or malformed USB device.
- CVE-2026-16515Medium
The net_icmpv6_send_error() function in the Zephyr network stack implemented only one of the three RFC 4443 section 2.4 suppression rules, so it did not check whether the packet's source address identifies a single node or whether the packet was sent to a multicast destination. An unauthenticated attacker on the same link can send a single IPv6 packet to ff02::1 with a spoofed victim source, causing every Zephyr node to emit ICMPv6 Parameter Problem messages to that victim (reflection with amplification), or send a unicast packet with a multicast source address, turning it into a link-flooding multicast frame.
- CVE-2026-15924Medium
Zephyr's TLS socket layer (subsys/net/lib/sockets/sockets_tls.c) keeps a process-global client_cache array of cached client session buffers shared by every TLS socket, with access serialized only by the per-socket ctx->lock mutex. Because CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_TLS_MAX_CLIENT_SESSION_COUNT defaults to 1, two concurrent client sockets contend for the same slot, causing a use-after-free read and a double-free when two saves evict the same entry. This corrupts the mbedTLS heap; the fix adds a dedicated session_cache_lock mutex taken across every accessor of client_cache.
- CVE-2026-15923Medium
The Zephyr SDIO subsystem has a vulnerability in sdio_io_rw_extended_helper() where func->cis.max_blk_size is decoded from the SDIO card without validation. If a card reports a maximum block size of zero, the transfer loop never terminates, causing a thread hang and permanent mutex lock, leading to denial of service for the SDIO peripheral.
- CVE-2026-15460Medium
A vulnerability in the Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) stack in Zephyr RTOS affects the L2CAP receive handler, which dispatches inbound data PDUs based only on the destination channel ID without verifying that the channel has reached the BT_L2CAP_CONNECTED state. An attacker within radio range can send data to a channel during connection setup, before configuration and authentication complete. This can lead to delivery of attacker data to upper-layer protocols on a half-open channel and to use of stale or partially initialized channel state, causing denial of service or a potential dangling-pointer condition.
Original NVD description (English source)
Zephyr's Bluetooth Mesh subnet key management leaks one PSA Crypto key slot on every subnet-key teardown. In subsys/bluetooth/mesh/subnet.c, net_keys_create() imports the Private Beacon Key into a PSA key slot under CONFIG_BT_MESH_PRIV_BEACONS (enabled by default), but subnet_keys_destroy() guarded the matching psa_destroy_key() with CONFIG_BT_MESH_V1d1. That Kconfig symbol was removed when explicit Mesh 1.0.1 support was dropped, so the destroy branch became permanently dead code and the import is never balanced by a destroy. The imbalanced teardown is reached every time subnet keys are destroyed: deleting a subnet (Config Server NetKey Delete), completing a Key Refresh Procedure (which retires the old key set), and resetting/re-provisioning the node. The over-the-air triggers are processed only under the node's device key, so they are exercisable by the provisioner or network administrator that owns the node, reachable over the Bluetooth Mesh network. With the default CONFIG_MBEDTLS_PSA_KEY_SLOT_COUNT of 16, repeated add/delete or key-refresh cycles exhaust the shared PSA key-slot pool after roughly a dozen rounds. Once exhausted, bt_mesh_private_beacon_key() and thus subnet creation fail: the node can no longer add subnets or complete key refresh, and other PSA crypto consumers on the device may be starved, until the device is rebooted. The fix aligns the destroy guard with the import guard (CONFIG_BT_MESH_PRIV_BEACONS) so each slot is freed.
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