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open-isns EUVDEUVD-2026-50330

| CVE-2026-55995 HIGH
Double Free (CWE-415)
2026-07-29 suse GHSA-93fw-mwmg-2g5m
8.7
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: suse
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Vendor (suse) PRIMARY
8.7 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
vuln.today AI
5.9 MEDIUM

Network vector but the required MITM position makes it AC:H; no auth (PR:N) or interaction, and impact is availability-only (A:H, C/I:N).

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat
7.5 HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (suse).

CVSS VectorVendor: suse

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
X

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Source Code Evidence Fetched
Jul 29, 2026 - 14:24 vuln.today
Analysis Generated
Jul 29, 2026 - 14:24 vuln.today
CVE Published
Jul 29, 2026 - 13:43 cve.org
HIGH 8.7

DescriptionCVE.org

A Double Free vulnerability in open-iscsi allows an unauthenticated MITM attacker to cause DoS.

This issue affects open-iscsi: from ? through 56718d4e9d1a4f51c30697b5c0534144bb41c9bb.

AnalysisAI

Denial of service in open-iscsi's bundled open-isns library (iSNS implementation) lets an unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacker crash the iSNS client/server by triggering a double free in the attribute-decoding routines. The flaw stems from freed pointers not being nulled in isns_attr_type_string_decode and isns_attr_type_opaque_decode, so a crafted iSNS message causes the same allocation to be freed twice. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; impact is limited to availability, with no confidentiality or integrity effect.

Technical ContextAI

The affected code is open-isns, the reference implementation of the Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol used by open-iscsi to discover and manage iSCSI/iFCP storage targets. The vulnerability is a classic CWE-415 Double Free: in attrs.c, isns_attr_type_string_decode and isns_attr_type_opaque_decode free a buffer on a decode error but leave value->iv_string / value->iv_opaque.ptr dangling, so a later cleanup pass frees the same memory again. The fix commit (56718d4e9d1a4f51c30697b5c0534144bb41c9bb) simply sets these pointers to NULL after freeing. Because attribute decoding runs on network-supplied iSNS PDUs, an attacker who can inject or alter iSNS traffic controls the malformed input that reaches this path.

RemediationAI

Upstream fix available (commit 56718d4e9d1a4f51c30697b5c0534144bb41c9bb); a released patched version is not independently confirmed from the input, so update open-isns/open-iscsi to a distribution build that incorporates this commit as soon as your vendor ships it - track the SUSE bug at https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-55995 and the upstream commit at https://github.com/open-iscsi/open-isns/commit/56718d4e9d1a4f51c30697b5c0534144bb41c9bb. As compensating controls until patched: if iSNS discovery is not used, disable it in your iSCSI initiator/target configuration to remove the vulnerable code path entirely; where iSNS is required, restrict iSNS server/client communication to a dedicated, isolated storage VLAN and enforce authenticated/integrity-protected transport (e.g., IPsec) to deny the MITM position the attack depends on. The trade-off of disabling iSNS is loss of automatic target discovery (requiring static target configuration), and network isolation/IPsec adds operational overhead but directly negates the required attacker position.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 Affected

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