# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31611"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:32.124Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:17:10.339Z"
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-2026-31611"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31611.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31611"
title: "ksmbd: require 3 sub-authorities before reading sub_auth[2]"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: require 3 sub-authorities before reading sub_auth[2]\n\nparse_dacl() compares each ACE SID against sid_unix_NFS_mode and on\nmatch reads sid.sub_auth[2] as the file mode.  If sid_unix_NFS_mode is\nthe prefix S-1-5-88-3 with num_subauth = 2 then compare_sids() compares\nonly min(num_subauth, 2) sub-authorities so a client SID with\nnum_subauth = 2 and sub_auth = {88, 3} will match.\n\nIf num_subauth = 2 and the ACE is placed at the very end of the security\ndescriptor, sub_auth[2] will be  4 bytes past end_of_acl.  The\nout-of-band bytes will then be masked to the low 9 bits and applied as\nthe file's POSIX mode, probably not something that is good to have\nhappen.\n\nFix this up by forcing the SID to actually carry a third sub-authority\nbefore reading it at all."
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