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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68186" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:58.299Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:30:54.269Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-68186" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68186.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68186" title: "binfmt_misc: set have_execfd only once the interpreter is opened" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbinfmt_misc: set have_execfd only once the interpreter is opened\n\nload_misc_binary() raises bprm-\u003ehave_execfd as soon as it sees the 'O'\n(or 'C') flag. This happens well before it opens the interpreter. If\nthat open fails the flag stays set on the bprm. binfmt_misc is at the\nhead of the format list so an interpreter open failure that returns\n-ENOEXEC lets the search fall through to a later format. This means it\nruns the matched binary directly having never staged an interpreter. So\nbprm-\u003eexecutable is NULL while have_execfd falsely claims a descriptor\nis present.\n\nConsequently, begin_new_exec() dereferences the missing executable:\n\n would_dump(bprm, bprm-\u003eexecutable);\n\nand NULL derefs. Had it not, the hand-off later in the same function\nwould have failed anyway. FD_ADD(0, bprm-\u003eexecutable) rejects a NULL\nfile with -ENOMEM. Both sites are past the point of no return so the\nexec cannot be unwound either way.\n\nThis can be reached by unprivileged users as binfmt_misc can be mounted\nin user namespaces. So a user can register an 'O' entry whose\ninterpreter lives on a FUSE mount, have the FUSE server fail the open\nwith -ENOEXEC and execute a native ELF file that matches the entry.\n\nhave_execfd only means anything alongside the executable it describes\nwhich is not set until the interpreter has been opened and staged.\nSo lets raise it there, next to execfd_creds, which is already set at\nthat point. An open failure now leaves it clear, so the fallback format\nderives credentials from the binary and emits no AT_EXECFD, as it would\nfor any native exec. The argv rewrite load_misc_binary() performs before\nthe open is still not undone. This means the binary sees the interpreter\npath in argv[0] and its own path in argv[1] but that predates this\nchange and only became observable once the exec stopped faulting." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8e9e9450df44e9dd529ec5beff283f48f4f4b97"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a261dc49d99681c9c71f38d16e31812dc3e30412"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40c09b7a1d4e0a4866042c87c2bd911bb57566c8"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f19d54e2524f0bf183b82f365ae4e49b4a2f788"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2dd0298905e97795a9c5ec30cf5b41975f821632"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cd4e9b7967dab48c9f79a00b06ffff7208c0993"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ccc99d58f94fad258c9c375715b3974e48620e8"},{"version":"bc2bf338d54b7aadaed49bb45b9e10d4592b2a46","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbf5f639918dc011aaf60aab8480218758ee68c5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","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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