CVE-2026-50254

High

Published: 30 June 2026

Published

30 June 2026

Modified

01 July 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v4 8.7 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

EPSS Score 0.0038 29.9th percentile

Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-50254 is a high-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Cisa (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 29.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-40421

Vulnerability details

An unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send a single crafted connection request to leak memory. Against storescp in its default single-process mode, memory grows quickly and the service is eventually killed, after which it stops accepting connections until an operator…

restarts it.

CWE(s): CWE-401

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.

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Why these techniques?

Memory leak (CWE-401) in a network service is directly exploited by remote unauthenticated requests to exhaust resources and terminate the process, matching Application or System Exploitation for Endpoint DoS.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0