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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63811" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:02:13.057Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:42:37.074Z" 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-2026-63811" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63811.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63811" title: "f2fs: read COW data with the original inode during atomic write" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: read COW data with the original inode during atomic write\n\nWhen updating an atomic-write file, f2fs_write_begin() may read the\npreviously written data back from the COW inode:\nprepare_atomic_write_begin() locates the block in the COW inode and sets\nuse_cow, and the read bio is then built with the COW inode:\n\n\tf2fs_submit_page_read(use_cow ? F2FS_I(inode)-\u003ecow_inode : inode,\n\t\t\t ...);\n\nand f2fs_grab_read_bio() decides whether to schedule fs-layer decryption\n(STEP_DECRYPT) for the bio based on that inode via\nfscrypt_inode_uses_fs_layer_crypto().\n\nHowever, the folio being filled belongs to the original inode\n(folio-\u003emapping-\u003ehost == inode), and the data stored in the COW block was\nencrypted (or left as plaintext) using the original inode's context, not\nthe COW inode's -- see f2fs_encrypt_one_page(), which keys off\nfio-\u003epage-\u003emapping-\u003ehost. fscrypt_decrypt_pagecache_blocks() likewise\noperates on folio-\u003emapping-\u003ehost.\n\nThe COW inode is created as a tmpfile in the parent directory and inherits\nits encryption policy from there. With test_dummy_encryption the newly\ncreated COW inode gets the dummy policy and becomes encrypted, while a\npre-existing regular file -- created before the policy applied, e.g.\nalready present in the on-disk image -- stays unencrypted. The read\npath then sets STEP_DECRYPT based on the encrypted COW inode and calls\nfscrypt_decrypt_pagecache_blocks() on a folio whose host (the unencrypted\noriginal inode) has a NULL -\u003ei_crypt_info, dereferencing it:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\n RIP: 0010:fscrypt_decrypt_pagecache_blocks+0xa0/0x310\n Workqueue: f2fs_post_read_wq f2fs_post_read_work\n Call Trace:\n fscrypt_decrypt_bio+0x1eb/0x340\n f2fs_post_read_work+0xba/0x140\n process_one_work+0x91c/0x1a40\n worker_thread+0x677/0xe90\n kthread+0x2bc/0x3a0\n\nThe COW inode is only needed to locate the on-disk block, and that block\naddress is already resolved into @blkaddr by prepare_atomic_write_begin()\nvia __find_data_block(cow_inode, ...); f2fs_submit_page_read() then reads\nfrom that physical @blkaddr directly, so the inode argument only selects\nthe post-read crypto context, not which block is fetched. Reading with\n@inode therefore returns the same (latest, not-yet-committed) COW data,\nwhile making both the fs-layer decryption decision and the inline crypto\npath use the correct (original inode's) key.\n\nWith the COW inode no longer used at the read site, the use_cow flag has no\nremaining consumer; drop it from f2fs_write_begin() and\nprepare_atomic_write_begin()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"591fc34e1f98b0d7eef4aa3440bfdff3c5a1cadd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcc9df992f3cbc43f2ecfe0b22e428e50f326e72"},{"version":"591fc34e1f98b0d7eef4aa3440bfdff3c5a1cadd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"655d55c5740d37ffdf6233ff5fe21cea879407f1"},{"version":"591fc34e1f98b0d7eef4aa3440bfdff3c5a1cadd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e4ab3907f44dc243d026048d7f5d477dae9267b"},{"version":"591fc34e1f98b0d7eef4aa3440bfdff3c5a1cadd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a92332f32a8d31a7eee47b1dc1d751cb3319908f"},{"version":"591fc34e1f98b0d7eef4aa3440bfdff3c5a1cadd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a41075acde0124d2f8a5f563068a5d63e8ffd57b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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