# 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-2026-72049"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:06.989Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:24.612Z"
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-2026-72049"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72049.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72049"
title: "ieee802154: admin-gate legacy LLSEC dump operations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nieee802154: admin-gate legacy LLSEC dump operations\n\nIn net/ieee802154/netlink.c, the legacy IEEE802154_NL family ops table\nbuilds the LLSEC dump entries (LLSEC_LIST_KEY, LLSEC_LIST_DEV,\nLLSEC_LIST_DEVKEY, LLSEC_LIST_SECLEVEL) with IEEE802154_DUMP() which\nsets no .flags, so generic netlink runs them ungated. The modern\nnl802154 family admin-gates the equivalent reads via\nNL802154_CMD_GET_SEC_KEY and friends with .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM.\n\nAny local uid that can open AF_NETLINK / NETLINK_GENERIC can resolve\nthe \"802.15.4 MAC\" family and dump LLSEC_LIST_KEY on any wpan netdev\nthat has an LLSEC key installed; the dump handler writes the raw\n16-byte AES-128 key bytes (IEEE802154_ATTR_LLSEC_KEY_BYTES, copied\nverbatim from struct ieee802154_llsec_key.key) into the reply.\nRecovering the AES key compromises 802.15.4 LLSEC link confidentiality\nand authenticity, since LLSEC uses CCM* and the same key authenticates\nand encrypts frames.\n\nImpact: any local uid with no capabilities can read the raw 16-byte\nAES-128 LLSEC key from the kernel keytable on any wpan netdev that has\nan administrator-installed LLSEC key, by issuing an LLSEC_LIST_KEY\ndump on the legacy IEEE802154_NL generic-netlink family.\n\nIntroduce IEEE802154_DUMP_PRIV() mirroring IEEE802154_DUMP() but\nsetting .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM, and use it for the four LLSEC dump\nentries. LIST_PHY and LIST_IFACE retain IEEE802154_DUMP() because the\nmodern nl802154 family exposes their equivalents to unprivileged\nreaders by design (NL802154_CMD_GET_WPAN_PHY and\nNL802154_CMD_GET_INTERFACE carry \"can be retrieved by unprivileged\nusers\" annotations)."
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