Vulnerability · Published Oct 14, 2026 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2026-50216
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Guardicore Platform Agent from Akamai. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An integer underflow exists in the DNS proxy component of the macOS NetworkExtension system extension shipped with Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) for macOS, whereby if a UDP datagram shorter than 96 bytes that begins with a specific value is received, a subsequent size computation underflows to a near-SIZE_MAX value, causing an allocation failure and uncaught Objective-C exception that aborts the root system extension.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Akamai | Guardicore Platform Agent | 0 – before 7.4 |
Weakness: CWE-191 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L