# 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-2026-68432"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-12T00:07:18.806Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:10.150Z"
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-2026-68432"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68432.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68432"
title: "vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink\n\nA tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and\nthe sticky underlay netns vxlan-\u003enet. They differ once the device is\ncreated in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in.\nThe rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev),\nso a caller privileged there but not in vxlan-\u003enet can rewrite a vxlan\ndevice whose underlay lives in vxlan-\u003enet.\n\nvxlan_changelink() validates and applies the new configuration against\nvxlan-\u003enet (vxlan_config_validate(vxlan-\u003enet, ...)) and can reopen the\nunderlay socket in that netns, so the same reasoning as the tunnel\nchangelink series applies here.\n\nGate vxlan_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of\nthe op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and\nthe rest of the \"require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for\nchangelink\" series.\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai)."
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