# 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-2026-43391"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:21:36.012Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-07T15:44:55.215Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43391"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43391.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43391"
title: "nsfs: tighten permission checks for handle opening"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnsfs: tighten permission checks for handle opening\n\nEven privileged services should not necessarily be able to see other\nprivileged service's namespaces so they can't leak information to each\nother. Use may_see_all_namespaces() helper that centralizes this policy\nuntil the nstree adapts."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5222470b2fbb3740f931f189db33dd1367b1ae75","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24ebaf6676ae4f74f4856eb645959b15e62bc1b4"},{"version":"5222470b2fbb3740f931f189db33dd1367b1ae75","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1797ee11451f1b2be69863a9f5bd43b948813fdf"},{"version":"5222470b2fbb3740f931f189db33dd1367b1ae75","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2324a9317f00013facb0ba00b00440e19d2af5e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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