CVE-2026-23272

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 41/100
Published: 2026-03-20 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally bump set->nelems before insertion In case that the set is full, a new element gets published then removed without waiting for the RCU grace period, while RCU reader can be walking over it already. To address this issue, add the element transaction even if set is full, but toggle the set_full flag to report -ENFILE so the abort path safely unwinds the set to its previous state. As for element updates, decrement set->nelems to restore it. A simpler fix is to call synchronize_rcu() in the error path. However, with a large batch adding elements to already maxed-out set, this could cause noticeable slowdown of such batches.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (18)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < 25841e8d4241c6c3763e70ae95050f8108707b46
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < 022effa9c54903858e443b1225370e6c758d03f6
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < 25fcaef7948912652905e96922f36583a84fffed
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < e3ccb11fc8249759d23326038c8db987ddaabc77
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < 86bc4b1a0f672d47ac19f9022432cb6a2e01cb33
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < 6826131c7674329335ca25df2550163eb8a1fd0c
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < ccb8c8f3c1127cf34d18c737309897c68046bf21
Linux Linux 35d0ac9070ef619e3bf44324375878a1c540387b < def602e498a4f951da95c95b1b8ce8ae68aa733a
Linux Linux fefdd79403e89b0c673965343b92e2e01e2713a8
Linux Linux 4.9.33 < 4.10
Linux Linux 4.10
linux linux_kernel 4.9.33 – 4.10
linux linux_kernel 4.10
linux linux_kernel 4.10
linux linux_kernel 4.10
linux linux_kernel 4.10
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0

Bug Bounty Relevance

41 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.17%
Raw Score 0.001680
Percentile 6.2%
Date 2026-10-30

EPSS Trend

2026-10-30
0.00168
2026-10-29
0.00168

Intelligence Sources

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