CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63829
8.8 HIGH
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1697957eb0971d420dde42862b88eb43506a1105 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19275943d8fe903eb7b9aa53e380e41efd042ada Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b5d3d506609b08b2e1f7c14f0b681a1953d572 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/866b0f5ae599490bd496fd84581c68ac8b94e6af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92b766fc55156e0da2ecd0c2302c971118f8a229 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9831bc9ecb402957810c2045c663fbfe9b09e296 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e54c05ed3d9c28733fb9e5837219aca3691defa3 Patch