CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-63829

8.8 HIGH Published 2026-07-19 Modified 2026-10-22 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-19
Last modified
2026-10-22
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net. Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper. Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t->collect_md before ip_tunnel_changelink() runs. Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.16 < 5.10.261) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.212) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.178) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.38) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References