CVE-2026-98229xfrm: save input state data before secpath resets
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.17%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 94% 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: xfrm: save input state data before secpath resets xfrm_input() stores the current xfrm_state in the skb secpath while it continues receive-side processing. Some input paths can reset that secpath before xfrm_input() has finished dereferencing the state. Receive callback users such as VTI and XFRM interfaces can reset the secpath. The VTI receive path does so before checking whether the packet crosses network namespaces, while the XFRM interface path does so only for cross-network-namespace packets. The XFRM_MAX_DEPTH error path can also reset the secpath before the final drop callback reports the current state's protocol. If secpath_reset() drops the last state reference while the state is concurrently deleted, xfrm_input() can still dereference the freed state when selecting transport_finish() or reporting the drop callback protocol. Save the state protocol on the stack while the state is still valid, and use the already saved address family for transport_finish(). A larval XFRM_STATE_ACQ state has no type, so retain nexthdr as its protocol. This preserves the existing drop-path fallback while avoiding the post-reset state dereferences without adding an extra state reference to every received packet.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 13 days later
· 13 days 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)
- 0.17% · top 94% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected df3893c176e9b0bb39b28ab5ec8113fa20ad1ee0 – < 35de97850987b3d022ed17df5b2577242e746daf
- affected df3893c176e9b0bb39b28ab5ec8113fa20ad1ee0 – < 148db154066b066616b82c12d373e786eba1f96a
- affected df3893c176e9b0bb39b28ab5ec8113fa20ad1ee0 – < 537a5ae18b2be70f8eb0aca843682e81a69aab91
- affected df3893c176e9b0bb39b28ab5ec8113fa20ad1ee0 – < 3cf5cdecd99c9c186a5ea518d93bbf3045b6e3aa
- affected 3.15
- unaffected < 3.15
- unaffected 6.12.112 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.54 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.2.8 – ≤ 7.2.*
- unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35de97850987b3d022ed17df5b2577242e746daf (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148db154066b066616b82c12d373e786eba1f96a (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/537a5ae18b2be70f8eb0aca843682e81a69aab91 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf5cdecd99c9c186a5ea518d93bbf3045b6e3aa (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-2026-93157 (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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