Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-50216 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-50216 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-50216?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 14 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent versions prior to 7.4.2-v53.6.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-50216?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-50216 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-50216?
- Check whether you run Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An integer underflow in the macOS NetworkExtension system extension's DNS proxy component occurs when processing UDP datagrams shorter than 96 bytes with a specific starting value. The size computation underflows to near SIZE_MAX, triggering a memory allocation failure and uncaught Objective-C exception that terminates the root system extension.
Affected products
- Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent versions prior to 7.4.2-v53.6.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-14: disclosed