CVE-2026-31518

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-04-22 Modified: 2026-11-11 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto When the TX queue for espintcp is full, esp_output_tail_tcp will return an error and not free the skb, because with synchronous crypto, the common xfrm output code will drop the packet for us. With async crypto (esp_output_done), we need to drop the skb when esp_output_tail_tcp returns an error.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (26)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < aca3ad0c262f54a5b5c95dda80a48365997d1224
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 41aafca57de4a4c026701622bd4648f112a9edcd
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 4820847e036ff1035b01b69ad68dfc17e7028fe9
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 6a3ec6efbc4f90e0ccb2e71574f07351f19996f4
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < df6f995358dc1f3c42484f5cfe241d7bd3e1cd15
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 88d386243ed374ac969dabd3bbc1409a31d81818
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 6aa9841d917532d0f2d932d1ff2f3a94305aaf47
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 0c0eef8ccd2413b0a10eb6bbd3442333b1e64dd2
Linux Linux 5.6
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < aca3ad0c262f54a5b5c95dda80a48365997d1224
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 41aafca57de4a4c026701622bd4648f112a9edcd
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 4820847e036ff1035b01b69ad68dfc17e7028fe9
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 6a3ec6efbc4f90e0ccb2e71574f07351f19996f4
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < df6f995358dc1f3c42484f5cfe241d7bd3e1cd15
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 88d386243ed374ac969dabd3bbc1409a31d81818
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 6aa9841d917532d0f2d932d1ff2f3a94305aaf47
Linux Linux e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 0c0eef8ccd2413b0a10eb6bbd3442333b1e64dd2
Linux Linux 5.6
linux linux_kernel 5.6 – 5.10.253
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0
linux linux_kernel 7.0

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.13%
Raw Score 0.001290
Percentile 2.6%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00129
2026-11-13
0.00129
2026-11-12
0.00129
2026-11-10
0.00129
2026-11-09
0.00129
2026-11-08
0.00129
2026-11-07
0.00129
2026-11-06
0.00129
2026-11-05
0.00129

Intelligence Sources

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