Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-10679
The DesignWare SPI driver (drivers/spi/spi_dw.c) computed the SPI BAUDR clock divider as info->clock_frequency / config->frequency without validating config->frequency.
spi_transceive is a Zephyr __syscall and its verify handler (drivers/spi/spi_handlers.c) copies the caller-supplied spi_config from userspace without checking the frequency field, so a userspace thread that has been granted access to a DesignWare SPI device kernel object can pass frequency = 0 and trigger an unsigned integer divide-by-zero in spi_dw_configure().
On Cortex-M Mainline (SCB->CCR.DIV_0_TRP is set in z_arm_fault_init()) and on ARC (a dedicated __ev_div_zero vector) this raises a CPU exception, resulting in a kernel fault and local denial of service.
The fix rejects zero frequency and frequencies above clock_frequency / 2 (the DesignWare SSI databook minimum SCKDIV of 2) with -EINVAL. The defect affects all Zephyr releases up to and including v4.4.0; exploitation requires CONFIG_USERSPACE=y and an unprivileged thread already granted SPI driver permission. There is no memory-corruption or information-disclosure impact.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 2.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 3.3
Products affected by CVE-2026-10679
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.11.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.12.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.13.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.14.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.14.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.14.2
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.14.3
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.8.99
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.9.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.9.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:1.9.2
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.5.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.5.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.6.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.6.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.79.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.81.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.82.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.83.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.84.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.85.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.86.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.87.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.88.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.89.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.90.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.91.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.92.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.93.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.94.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:2.95.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.2.01
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.2.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.2.31
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.2.40
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.2.41
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.3.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.5.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.6.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.7.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:3.7.2
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.2.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.4.1