CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72061
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- 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-862
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sit: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink
ipip6_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.
Gate ipip6_changelink() on rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() at its top,
before any attribute is parsed. sit was the one tunnel type not covered
by the recent series that added this check to the other changelink()
handlers.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27ccb68e7cccead5d8c611665a45d23032d468b3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3118e97dae533fb45964b87bbed1801afcff7c65 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/388ccffbd2e7e5e4271f291085a7451865705305 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d139dec96691cde96cb40ed293e2d13d994fb4f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99ae3248b33df94201915d9c32e7470cdf08cfcd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0ea1aedb37bb979e864ed7787975434bbd9db73 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5a0ae895432596b2f464172da8218e2d84e2932 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb41b308e9d867725d965b291dd085028e36a480 git.kernel.org