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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23111" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-13T13:29:55.895Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:13:04.873Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-23111" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23111.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23111" title: "netfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate()\n\nnft_map_catchall_activate() has an inverted element activity check\ncompared to its non-catchall counterpart nft_mapelem_activate() and\ncompared to what is logically required.\n\nnft_map_catchall_activate() is called from the abort path to re-activate\ncatchall map elements that were deactivated during a failed transaction.\nIt should skip elements that are already active (they don't need\nre-activation) and process elements that are inactive (they need to be\nrestored). Instead, the current code does the opposite: it skips inactive\nelements and processes active ones.\n\nCompare the non-catchall activate callback, which is correct:\n\n nft_mapelem_activate():\n if (nft_set_elem_active(ext, iter-\u003egenmask))\n return 0; /* skip active, process inactive */\n\nWith the buggy catchall version:\n\n nft_map_catchall_activate():\n if (!nft_set_elem_active(ext, genmask))\n continue; /* skip inactive, process active */\n\nThe consequence is that when a DELSET operation is aborted,\nnft_setelem_data_activate() is never called for the catchall element.\nFor NFT_GOTO verdict elements, this means nft_data_hold() is never\ncalled to restore the chain-\u003euse reference count. Each abort cycle\npermanently decrements chain-\u003euse. Once chain-\u003euse reaches zero,\nDELCHAIN succeeds and frees the chain while catchall verdict elements\nstill reference it, resulting in a use-after-free.\n\nThis is exploitable for local privilege escalation from an unprivileged\nuser via user namespaces + nftables on distributions that enable\nCONFIG_USER_NS and CONFIG_NF_TABLES.\n\nFix by removing the negation so the check matches nft_mapelem_activate():\nskip active elements, process inactive ones." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"25aa2ad37c2162be1c0bc4fe6397f7e4c13f00f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c760ba4e36c750379d13569f23f5a6e185333f5"},{"version":"d60be2da67d172aecf866302c91ea11533eca4d9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9b6573421de51829f7ec1cce76d85f5f6fbbd7f"},{"version":"628bd3e49cba1c066228e23d71a852c23e26da73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42c574c1504aa089a0a142e4c13859327570473d"},{"version":"628bd3e49cba1c066228e23d71a852c23e26da73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1444ff890b4653add12f734ffeffc173d42862dd"},{"version":"628bd3e49cba1c066228e23d71a852c23e26da73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b68a45f9722f2babe9e7bad00aa74638addf081"},{"version":"628bd3e49cba1c066228e23d71a852c23e26da73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f41c5d151078c5348271ffaf8e7410d96f2d82f8"},{"version":"bc9f791d2593f17e39f87c6e2b3a36549a3705b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3c7ec098e3b588434a8b07ea9b5b36f04cef1f50","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a136b7942ad2a50de708f76ea299ccb45ac7a7f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"dc7cdf8cbcbf8b13de1df93f356ec04cdeef5c41","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.200"},{"version":"6.1.36","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.163"},{"version":"4.19.316","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.262","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"6.3.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"5.15.200","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","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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