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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53492" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:44.019Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:28.999Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" 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-2023-53492" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53492.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53492" title: "netfilter: nf_tables: do not ignore genmask when looking up chain by id" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: do not ignore genmask when looking up chain by id\n\nWhen adding a rule to a chain referring to its ID, if that chain had been\ndeleted on the same batch, the rule might end up referring to a deleted\nchain.\n\nThis will lead to a WARNING like following:\n\n[ 33.098431] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 33.098678] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 69 at net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2037 nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x23d/0x260\n[ 33.099217] Modules linked in:\n[ 33.099388] CPU: 5 PID: 69 Comm: kworker/5:1 Not tainted 6.4.0+ #409\n[ 33.099726] Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work\n[ 33.100018] RIP: 0010:nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x23d/0x260\n[ 33.100306] Code: 8b 7c 24 68 e8 64 9c ed fe 4c 89 e7 e8 5c 9c ed fe 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 c0 89 c6 89 c7 c3 cc cc cc cc \u003c0f\u003e 0b 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 c0 89 c6 89 c7\n[ 33.101271] RSP: 0018:ffffc900004ffc48 EFLAGS: 00010202\n[ 33.101546] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff888006fc0a28 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 33.101920] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000\n[ 33.102649] RBP: ffffc900004ffc78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n[ 33.103018] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8880135ef500\n[ 33.103385] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dead000000000122 R15: ffff888006fc0a10\n[ 33.103762] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888024c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 33.104184] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 33.104493] CR2: 00007fe863b56a50 CR3: 00000000124b0001 CR4: 0000000000770ee0\n[ 33.104872] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 33.104999] Call Trace:\n[ 33.105113] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 33.105214] ? show_regs+0x72/0x90\n[ 33.105371] ? __warn+0xa5/0x210\n[ 33.105520] ? nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x23d/0x260\n[ 33.105732] ? report_bug+0x1f2/0x200\n[ 33.105902] ? handle_bug+0x46/0x90\n[ 33.106546] ? exc_invalid_op+0x19/0x50\n[ 33.106762] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20\n[ 33.106995] ? nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x23d/0x260\n[ 33.107249] ? nf_tables_chain_destroy+0x30/0x260\n[ 33.107506] nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x669/0x680\n[ 33.107782] ? mark_held_locks+0x28/0xa0\n[ 33.107996] ? __pfx_nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x10/0x10\n[ 33.108294] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x28/0x70\n[ 33.108538] process_one_work+0x68c/0xb70\n[ 33.108755] ? lock_acquire+0x17f/0x420\n[ 33.108977] ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10\n[ 33.109218] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x128/0x1d0\n[ 33.109435] ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x71/0x80\n[ 33.109634] worker_thread+0x2bd/0x700\n[ 33.109817] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 33.110254] kthread+0x18b/0x1d0\n[ 33.110410] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 33.110581] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50\n[ 33.110757] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[ 33.110866] irq event stamp: 1651\n[ 33.111017] hardirqs last enabled at (1659): [\u003cffffffffa206a209\u003e] __up_console_sem+0x79/0xa0\n[ 33.111379] hardirqs last disabled at (1666): [\u003cffffffffa206a1ee\u003e] __up_console_sem+0x5e/0xa0\n[ 33.111740] softirqs last enabled at (1616): [\u003cffffffffa1f5d40e\u003e] __irq_exit_rcu+0x9e/0xe0\n[ 33.112094] softirqs last disabled at (1367): [\u003cffffffffa1f5d40e\u003e] __irq_exit_rcu+0x9e/0xe0\n[ 33.112453] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThis is due to the nft_chain_lookup_byid ignoring the genmask. After this\nchange, adding the new rule will fail as it will not find the chain." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"837830a4b439bfeb86c70b0115c280377c84714b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ae2e501331aaa506eaf760339bb2f43e5769395"},{"version":"837830a4b439bfeb86c70b0115c280377c84714b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"041e2ac88caef286b39064e83e825e3f53113d36"},{"version":"837830a4b439bfeb86c70b0115c280377c84714b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc95c8b02c6160936f1f3d8d9d7f4f66f3c84b49"},{"version":"837830a4b439bfeb86c70b0115c280377c84714b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e5e967e8505fbdabfb6497367ec1b808cadc356"},{"version":"837830a4b439bfeb86c70b0115c280377c84714b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"515ad530795c118f012539ed76d02bacfd426d89"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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