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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80596"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:22.892Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-29T06:21:08.760Z"
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-2026-80596"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80596.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80596"
title: "Input: ims-pcu - only expose sysfs attributes on control interface"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: ims-pcu - only expose sysfs attributes on control interface\n\nWhen the driver was converted to use the driver core to instantiate device\nattributes (via .dev_groups in the usb_driver structure), the attributes\nstarted appearing on all interfaces bound to the driver. Since the ims-pcu\ndriver manually claims the secondary data interface during probe, the\ndriver core automatically creates the sysfs attributes for that interface\nas well.\n\nHowever, the driver only supports these attributes on the primary control\ninterface. Data interfaces lack the necessary descriptors and internal\nstate to handle these requests, and accessing them can lead to unexpected\nbehavior or crashes.\n\nFix this by updating the is_visible() callbacks for both the main and OFN\nattribute groups to verify that the interface being accessed is indeed the\ncontrol interface."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"204d18a7a0c67352857dee1bbac517ed63f01d8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d5e7c8d48f0aaeb9ec90a9a4f450f3c5e422431"},{"version":"204d18a7a0c67352857dee1bbac517ed63f01d8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87e2f89dea078572fb9e13864cec2b1bd8e89b71"},{"version":"204d18a7a0c67352857dee1bbac517ed63f01d8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73e6687be0c1c323a8ec5b733f29440a93e08ff2"},{"version":"204d18a7a0c67352857dee1bbac517ed63f01d8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"001428ea4d2c371107cb984108e266adf99f1f1e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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