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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74618"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:02.778Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:02.778Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74618"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74618.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74618"
title: "binfmt_misc: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbinfmt_misc: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace\n\nfsopen() records the caller's user namespace in fc-\u003euser_ns and hands\nback an ordinary file descriptor. Nothing ties the task that calls\nfsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) to the task that created the context. The\nfd is inherited across fork() and exec() and it can be passed over a\nunix socket.\n\nCompleting a context from another user namespace is allowed on purpose.\nvfs_cmd_create() authorizes the create with mount_capable(), which for\nFS_USERNS_MOUNT checks ns_capable(fc-\u003euser_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN), and that\nsucceeds for a task holding CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an ancestor of fc-\u003euser_ns.\nSo an unprivileged task can reach the WARN_ON() in bm_fill_super():\ncreate a user and a mount namespace in a child, call\nfsopen(\"binfmt_misc\") there, send the fscontext fd to the parent and let\nthe parent issue FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE. Both namespaces come from a plain\nunshare(1) and no capability is needed anywhere:\n\n  WARNING: fs/binfmt_misc.c:938 at bm_fill_super+0xa2/0xc0 [binfmt_misc]\n  CPU: 15 UID: 1000 PID: 3243382 Comm: fswarn\n  Call Trace:\n   get_tree_keyed+0x7d/0xb0\n   bm_get_tree+0x34/0x90 [binfmt_misc]\n   vfs_get_tree+0x2a/0x100\n   vfs_cmd_create+0x60/0xf0\n   __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4b2/0x500\n\nThe child needs the mount namespace because fsopen() itself gates on\nmay_mount(), which asks for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the user namespace owning\nthe caller's mount namespace. fsconfig() doesn't repeat that check.\n\nIt is a WARN_ON() and not a WARN_ON_ONCE(), so the condition can be\nraised in a loop to taint the kernel and flood the log, and it panics a\nkernel booted with panic_on_warn.\n\nKeep refusing the mount and stop warning about it. Nothing in\nbm_fill_super() depends on the two namespaces matching, it derives\neverything from sb-\u003es_user_ns."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"21ca59b365c091d583f36ac753eaa8baf947be6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37cf5cf1320a84a17225a1690547b8a0812ca94e"},{"version":"21ca59b365c091d583f36ac753eaa8baf947be6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24e95a24f151ce40d5fc1b3a6cefbcda8ded736c"},{"version":"21ca59b365c091d583f36ac753eaa8baf947be6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"047f927f54c6c17593e93aafe82dcb7acdda2a71"},{"version":"21ca59b365c091d583f36ac753eaa8baf947be6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79fdf39f1a31f88cb3833b6f8091fbf6acdca2c6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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