# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63891"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:02.840Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:02.840Z"
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-2026-63891"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63891.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63891"
title: "thunderbolt: property: Cap recursion depth in __tb_property_parse_dir()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthunderbolt: property: Cap recursion depth in __tb_property_parse_dir()\n\nA DIRECTORY entry's value field is used as the dir_offset for a\nrecursive call into __tb_property_parse_dir() with no depth counter.\nA crafted peer that chains DIRECTORY entries into a back-reference\nloop drives the parser until the kernel stack is exhausted and the\nguard page fires.  Any untrusted XDomain peer (cable, dock, in-line\ninspector, adjacent host) that reaches the PROPERTIES_REQUEST\ncontrol-plane exchange can trigger this without authentication.\n\nThread a depth counter through tb_property_parse() and\n__tb_property_parse_dir(), and reject blocks that exceed\nTB_PROPERTY_MAX_DEPTH = 8.  That is comfortably larger than any\nobserved legitimate XDomain layout.\n\nOperators who do not need XDomain host-to-host discovery can disable\nthe path entirely with thunderbolt.xdomain=0 on the kernel command\nline."
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