- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fhandle: reject detached mounts in capable_wrt_mount() The recent fhandle RCU fix moved the mount namespace capability check into capable_wrt_mount(), so a non-NULL mnt_namespace survives the ns_capable() dereference. The helper still assumes the later READ_ONCE(mount->mnt_ns) must be non-NULL because may_decode_fh() checked is_mounted() first. That assumption is not stable. A detached mount from open_tree(..., OPEN_TREE_CLONE) can be dissolved on fput while open_by_handle_at() is between those checks, and umount_tree() can clear mount->mnt_ns. If the helper observes NULL, it dereferences mnt_ns->user_ns and panics. Return false when the RCU read observes a detached mount. This keeps the relaxed permission path conservative: a mount no longer attached to a namespace cannot authorize open_by_handle_at() access.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Received | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 93% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 – < 15104234c267ebe04b9f9a73e5c2179cc265ff60
- affected 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 – < 6c52226072a3c61337b1eec1799bb987748884fa
- affected 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 – < 6ee183d89261bf1d1cf9f06d80a40dab8f36ee55
- affected 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 – < 6c732471740bc2ac9b0946134f9f551dc75f4369
- affected 6.11
- unaffected < 6.11
- unaffected 6.12.97 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.40 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.1.5 – ≤ 7.1.*
- unaffected 7.2 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15104234c267ebe04b9f9a73e5c2179cc265ff60 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c52226072a3c61337b1eec1799bb987748884fa (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ee183d89261bf1d1cf9f06d80a40dab8f36ee55 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c732471740bc2ac9b0946134f9f551dc75f4369 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-58992 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-72034)Record last updated .