CVE-2026-50217

Medium

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows WFP callout driver of Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) allows a local low-privileged user to cause a denial of service (system crash / BSOD) via an outbound ICMPv6 packet containing an IPv6 Hop-by-Hop extension header. When the IPv6 ICMP redirect policy is active, the packet is copied into a buffer that is freed but subsequently passed to a downstream filter. The size of the freed allocation is attacker-controlled (via packet length), enabling kernel pool grooming. Exploitation requires that the non-default IPv6 ICMP capture/redirect policy is enabled for the endpoint.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.7
Exploit probability—
ProductGuardicore Platform Agent
PublishedOct 14, 2026
First seenOct 14, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent7.4 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Akamai Guardicore Platform Agentv < 7.47.4

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