# 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-2026-63833"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:02:25.469Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:49.624Z"
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-2026-63833"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63833.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63833"
title: "ntfs3: reject direct userspace writes to reserved $LX* xattrs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs3: reject direct userspace writes to reserved $LX* xattrs\n\nNTFS3 uses $LXUID, $LXGID, $LXMOD and $LXDEV as internal WSL\npermission metadata and reloads them into i_uid, i_gid and i_mode\nfrom ntfs_get_wsl_perm().\n\nBecause the empty-prefix xattr handler also lets file owners call\nsetxattr() on these names directly, an unprivileged writer on a\nwritable ntfs3 mount can plant root ownership and S_ISUID on their own\nfile and gain euid 0 after inode reload.\n\nReject direct userspace writes to the reserved $LX* names. Internal\nntfs3 metadata updates are unchanged because ntfs_save_wsl_perm()\nwrites them via ntfs_set_ea() directly.\n\n[almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com: added an additional check for non privileged users]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e574af95234afc3c725988bbc1fdeb46b9f386a4"},{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c3cd6da4a14380ef79e34bd9dff7caf46687477"},{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8852ae29868e449fdb47eebc28f35fb80741a5f"},{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8d420949b335a4b51d06ab276beee6b8dfdc909"},{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e658b9245a52d838ef93729a7bc07de8e19deb7"},{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"293a84fa40b3a1b3471c0545722724bc10973f76"},{"version":"be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b08dccecf825cbf905f348bc6ccb497507e28e2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.38","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"}]

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