diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.15.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.15.bb
index b28bfe72b7..76e4768fb9 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.15.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.15.bb
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.memcached.org/files/${BP}.tar.gz \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8d7abe3d649378edbba16f42ef1d66ca3f2ac075f2eb97145ce164388e6ed515"
 
+# disputed: this is a problem of applications using php-memcached inproperly
+CVE_CHECK_IGNORE = "CVE-2022-26635"
+
 # set the same COMPATIBLE_HOST as libhugetlbfs
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64|powerpc|powerpc64|aarch64|arm).*-linux*"