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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53341" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-01T13:32:22.873Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:43.543Z" 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-2026-53341" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53341.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53341" title: "fhandle: fix UAF due to unlocked -\u003emnt_ns read in may_decode_fh()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfhandle: fix UAF due to unlocked -\u003emnt_ns read in may_decode_fh()\n\nmay_decode_fh() accesses mount::mnt_ns without holding any locks; that\nmeans the mount can concurrently be unmounted, and the mnt_namespace can\nconcurrently be freed after an RCU grace period.\n\nThis race can happens as follows, assuming that the mount point was\ncreated by open_tree(..., OPEN_TREE_CLONE):\n\nthread 1 thread 2 RCU\n __do_sys_open_by_handle_at\n do_handle_open\n handle_to_path\n may_decode_fh\n is_mounted\n [mount::mnt_ns access]\n [mount::mnt_ns access]\n__do_sys_close\n fput_close_sync\n __fput\n dissolve_on_fput\n umount_tree\n class_namespace_excl_destructor\n namespace_unlock\n free_mnt_ns\n mnt_ns_tree_remove\n call_rcu(mnt_ns_release_rcu)\n mnt_ns_release_rcu\n mnt_ns_release\n kfree\n [mnt_namespace::user_ns access] **UAF**\n\nFix it by taking rcu_read_lock() around the mount::mnt_ns access, like\nin __prepend_path().\nAdditionally, document the semantics of mount::mnt_ns, and use WRITE_ONCE()\nfor writers that can race with lockless readers.\n\nThis bug is unreachable unless one of the following is set:\n\n - CONFIG_PREEMPTION\n - CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD\n\nbecause it requires an RCU grace period to happen during a syscall without\nan explicit preemption.\n\nThis doesn't seem to have interesting security impact; worst-case, it could\nleak the result of an integer comparison to userspace (from the level\ncheck in cap_capable()), cause an endless loop, or crash the kernel by\ndereferencing an invalid address." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15ea8dc42a02259d49dee38a658d40f60fcd75ed"},{"version":"620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32138633e51e6db59e474765cf93268c92b42888"},{"version":"620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8ed2c29fcfdac78db96c9da4e659c8a513f2a94"},{"version":"620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40ab6644b99685755f740b872c00ef40d9aa870e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.95","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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