CVE-2026-43013

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-05-01 Modified: 2026-11-11 First seen: 2026-11-06 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: net/mlx5: lag: Check for LAG device before creating debugfs __mlx5_lag_dev_add_mdev() may return 0 (success) even when an error occurs that is handled gracefully. Consequently, the initialization flow proceeds to call mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() even when there is no valid LAG context. mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() blindly created the debugfs directory and attributes. This exposed interfaces (like the members file) that rely on a valid ldev pointer, leading to potential NULL pointer dereferences if accessed when ldev is NULL. Add a check to verify that mlx5_lag_dev(dev) returns a valid pointer before attempting to create the debugfs entries.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (14)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 7f46a0b7327ae261f9981888708dbca22c283900 < a3db46d5f4df92630a96f7bc77b60e75c2353e06
Linux Linux 7f46a0b7327ae261f9981888708dbca22c283900 < 7129632cab3e4d23510b21930aa73b8d97a859f5
Linux Linux 7f46a0b7327ae261f9981888708dbca22c283900 < cfa774e6c920c81e700327bf10db8cb50d5db456
Linux Linux 7f46a0b7327ae261f9981888708dbca22c283900 < c53cf44588a93000f71817a6bb87a66353c48dee
Linux Linux 7f46a0b7327ae261f9981888708dbca22c283900 < 89c65f2fcd8801365b410f40a427cbcd7f4c28e9
Linux Linux 7f46a0b7327ae261f9981888708dbca22c283900 < bf16bca6653679d8a514d6c1c5a2c67065033f14
Linux Linux 5.19
linux linux_kernel 5.19 – 6.1.168
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

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001230
Percentile 2.1%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00123
2026-11-12
0.00123
2026-11-10
0.00123
2026-11-09
0.00123
2026-11-08
0.00123
2026-11-07
0.00123
2026-11-06
0.00123

Intelligence Sources

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