CVE-2026-68432

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68432
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68432.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-68432
Downstream
Published
2026-08-12T00:07:18.806Z
Modified
2026-08-18T03:31:07.209716377Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: require CAPNETADMIN in the device netns for changelink

A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, devnet(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 CAPNETADMIN only against devnet(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in vxlan->net can rewrite a vxlan device whose underlay lives in vxlan->net.

vxlanchangelink() validates and applies the new configuration against vxlan->net (vxlanconfig_validate(vxlan->net, ...)) and can reopen the underlay socket in that netns, so the same reasoning as the tunnel changelink series applies here.

Gate vxlanchangelink() with rtnldevlinknetcapable(), at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgrechangelink() and the rest of the "require CAPNETADMIN in the device netns for changelink" series.

Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68432.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792
Fixed
b3793d7dccb192ffff29894d11824db6251acdd5
Fixed
32d10c46bfde3e9b274e9e1bd6399d0ebea8f60f
Fixed
730c7e5fea7f06e0cdf21c547222ec93234fd1d6
Fixed
e8ad0d311e225939a9a6c745d6cc384c7364ec87
Fixed
3a61bd9637f3d929aa846e4eb3d98b48c26fcb0e

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68432.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.11.0
Fixed
6.6.148
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68432.json"