CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68432
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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-863
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink
A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and
the sticky underlay netns vxlan->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 vxlan->net can rewrite a vxlan
device whose underlay lives in vxlan->net.
vxlan_changelink() validates and applies the new configuration against
vxlan->net (vxlan_config_validate(vxlan->net, ...)) and can reopen the
underlay socket in that netns, so the same reasoning as the tunnel
changelink series applies here.
Gate vxlan_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of
the op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and
the rest of the "require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for
changelink" series.
Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aa580a8bbbed2507b4582a1f0ef581d480d06ed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d10c46bfde3e9b274e9e1bd6399d0ebea8f60f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a61bd9637f3d929aa846e4eb3d98b48c26fcb0e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/730c7e5fea7f06e0cdf21c547222ec93234fd1d6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7465ade989ba84adc2bfa58bad3ca25d249f0f7a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3793d7dccb192ffff29894d11824db6251acdd5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b95a8743e58f7efed5ddc4cb73829b66f17feab0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ad0d311e225939a9a6c745d6cc384c7364ec87 git.kernel.org