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CVE-2026-68432

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the sticky underlay netns vxlan->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in vxlan->net can rewrite a vxlan device whose underlay lives in vxlan->net. vxlan_changelink() validates and applies the new configuration against vxlan->net (vxlan_config_validate(vxlan->net, ...)) and can reopen the underlay socket in that netns, so the same reasoning as the tunnel changelink series applies here. Gate vxlan_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and the rest of the "require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink" series. Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Scoped product and version facts

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.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgitb95a8743e58f7efed5ddc4cb73829b66f17feab0UnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgit7465ade989ba84adc2bfa58bad3ca25d249f0f7aUnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgit0aa580a8bbbed2507b4582a1f0ef581d480d06edUnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgitb3793d7dccb192ffff29894d11824db6251acdd5UnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgit32d10c46bfde3e9b274e9e1bd6399d0ebea8f60fUnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgit730c7e5fea7f06e0cdf21c547222ec93234fd1d6UnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgite8ad0d311e225939a9a6c745d6cc384c7364ec87UnavailableNone listed
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792affectedgit3a61bd9637f3d929aa846e4eb3d98b48c26fcb0eUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.11affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.11UnavailableNone listed
5.10.265unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.216unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.183unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.148unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.101unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.42unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.1.6unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.1.*None listed
7.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed