# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47010"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:29.051Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:46:12.794Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47010"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47010.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47010"
title: "net: Only allow init netns to set default tcp cong to a restricted algo"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: Only allow init netns to set default tcp cong to a restricted algo\n\ntcp_set_default_congestion_control() is netns-safe in that it writes\nto &net-\u003eipv4.tcp_congestion_control, but it also sets\nca-\u003eflags |= TCP_CONG_NON_RESTRICTED which is not namespaced.\nThis has the unintended side-effect of changing the global\nnet.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control sysctl, despite the fact that it\nis read-only: 97684f0970f6 (\"net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control\nreadonly in non-init netns\")\n\nResolve this netns \"leak\" by only allowing the init netns to set the\ndefault algorithm to one that is restricted. This restriction could be\nremoved if tcp_allowed_congestion_control were namespace-ified in the\nfuture.\n\nThis bug was uncovered with\nhttps://github.com/JonathonReinhart/linux-netns-sysctl-verify"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"992de06308d9a9584d59b96d294ac676f924e437"},{"version":"6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9884f745108f7d25b189bbcd6754e284fb29ab68"},{"version":"6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c1ea8bee75df8fe2184a50fcd0f70bf82986f42"},{"version":"6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"efe1532a6e1a8e3c343d04fff510f0ed80328f9c"},{"version":"6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7d7bedd507bb732e600403b7a96f9fe48d0ca31"},{"version":"6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d432592f30fcc34ef5a10aac4887b4897884493"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.191","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.119","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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