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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53239" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:35.149Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:30.877Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53239" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53239.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53239" title: "xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx()\n\nFix the race by pruning the bin while still holding xfrm_policy_lock,\nbefore dropping it. Use __xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin() directly since\nthe lock is already held. The wrapper xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin()\nbecomes unused and is removed.\n\nRace:\n\n CPU0 (XFRM_MSG_DELPOLICY) CPU1 (XFRM_MSG_NEWSPDINFO)\n ========================== ==========================\n xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx():\n spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)\n bin = xfrm_policy_inexact_lookup()\n __xfrm_policy_unlink(pol)\n spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)\n xfrm_policy_kill(ret)\n // wide window, lock not held\n xfrm_hash_rebuild():\n spin_lock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)\n __xfrm_policy_inexact_flush():\n kfree_rcu(bin) // bin freed\n spin_unlock_bh(xfrm_policy_lock)\n xfrm_policy_inexact_prune_bin(bin)\n // UAF: bin is freed" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fc536e9f6856230f19c7d13e71af064b6a77b22"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4c1ea36d83bf3c4569468ca5b8b614fda1bf821"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25c8c7fb3b0b9668c7d05e209f58c158d2b020c7"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42827d03f8009a6a218bacab153e21f39d6a121c"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88697cf980222d5906a37bf47662dac0732e2a0f"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5316e2b8614a87d8736941972441cb47bfd4491"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec82ea4eb220164d854f8734ca5a35e23e577b94"},{"version":"6be3b0db6db82cf056a72cc18042048edd27f8ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f2d76c9c03257c0782afef9d95321fa04096f60"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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