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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 23, 2026· Updated Feb 25, 2026

Malformed Valkey Cluster bus message can lead to Remote DoS

CVE-2026-21863

Description

Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to versions 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12, a malicious actor with access to the Valkey clusterbus port can send an invalid packet that may cause an out bound read, which might result in the system crashing. The Valkey clusterbus packet processing code does not validate that a clusterbus ping extension packet is located within buffer of the clusterbus packet before attempting to read it. Versions 9.0.2, 8.1.6, 8.0.7, and 7.2.12 fix the issue. As an additional mitigation, don't expose the cluster bus connection directly to end users, and protect the connection with its own network ACLs.

Affected products

2
  • Valkey Io/Valkeyllm-fuzzy
    Range: <=9.0.2, <=8.1.6, <=8.0.7, <=7.2.12
  • valkey-io/valkeyv5
    Range: < 7.2.12

Patches

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