# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

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-2026-43052"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:46.029Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:18:53.241Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43052"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43052.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43052"
title: "wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper\n\nWhen NL80211_TDLS_ENABLE_LINK is called, the code only checks if the\nstation exists but not whether it is actually a TDLS station. This\nallows the operation to proceed for non-TDLS stations, causing\nunintended side effects like modifying channel context and HT\nprotection before failing.\n\nAdd a check for sta-\u003esta.tdls early in the ENABLE_LINK case, before\nany side effects occur, to ensure the operation is only allowed for\nactual TDLS peers."
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