- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.14%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 96% 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: ieee802154: admin-gate legacy LLSEC dump operations In net/ieee802154/netlink.c, the legacy IEEE802154_NL family ops table builds the LLSEC dump entries (LLSEC_LIST_KEY, LLSEC_LIST_DEV, LLSEC_LIST_DEVKEY, LLSEC_LIST_SECLEVEL) with IEEE802154_DUMP() which sets no .flags, so generic netlink runs them ungated. The modern nl802154 family admin-gates the equivalent reads via NL802154_CMD_GET_SEC_KEY and friends with .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM. Any local uid that can open AF_NETLINK / NETLINK_GENERIC can resolve the "802.15.4 MAC" family and dump LLSEC_LIST_KEY on any wpan netdev that has an LLSEC key installed; the dump handler writes the raw 16-byte AES-128 key bytes (IEEE802154_ATTR_LLSEC_KEY_BYTES, copied verbatim from struct ieee802154_llsec_key.key) into the reply. Recovering the AES key compromises 802.15.4 LLSEC link confidentiality and authenticity, since LLSEC uses CCM* and the same key authenticates and encrypts frames. Impact: any local uid with no capabilities can read the raw 16-byte AES-128 LLSEC key from the kernel keytable on any wpan netdev that has an administrator-installed LLSEC key, by issuing an LLSEC_LIST_KEY dump on the legacy IEEE802154_NL generic-netlink family. Introduce IEEE802154_DUMP_PRIV() mirroring IEEE802154_DUMP() but setting .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM, and use it for the four LLSEC dump entries. LIST_PHY and LIST_IFACE retain IEEE802154_DUMP() because the modern nl802154 family exposes their equivalents to unprivileged readers by design (NL802154_CMD_GET_WPAN_PHY and NL802154_CMD_GET_INTERFACE carry "can be retrieved by unprivileged users" annotations).
Timeline
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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 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Received | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.14% · top 96% 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 7.1.
Affected products
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < 3465035ba18b1ed50f8d201897d14135d20532b0
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < dffe745760f38fac0b8288e0dc4759b23d9888ff
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < e84708ef7521f3bffc85a449954042018abbd60e
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < 5abe94a205539d27945cda3ba43fdcfe295cf2c8
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < 09fd25cd8cd80a6b3edef04e53a7324d06ac2180
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < 1905ebabe638c946aced00c4bb664da26cac56d5
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < 6383248058956f2a52d720b1e9f8921099cdae04
- affected 3e9c156e2c210ab67b12b1b692983a6b97c19d3f – < 9c1e0b6d49471a712511d23fc9d06901561135e8
- affected 3.16
- unaffected < 3.16
- unaffected 5.10.261 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.212 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.178 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.145 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.97 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.40 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.1.5 – ≤ 7.1.*
- unaffected 7.2 – ≤ *
References
References8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3465035ba18b1ed50f8d201897d14135d20532b0 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dffe745760f38fac0b8288e0dc4759b23d9888ff (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e84708ef7521f3bffc85a449954042018abbd60e (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5abe94a205539d27945cda3ba43fdcfe295cf2c8 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09fd25cd8cd80a6b3edef04e53a7324d06ac2180 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1905ebabe638c946aced00c4bb664da26cac56d5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6383248058956f2a52d720b1e9f8921099cdae04 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1e0b6d49471a712511d23fc9d06901561135e8 (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-2026-59007 (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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