CVE-2026-53000

netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 24, 2026 at 04:29 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsLinux KernelEnterprise Linux

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nat: use kfree_rcu to release ops Florian Westphal says: "Historically this is not an issue, even for normal base hooks: the data path doesn't use the original nf_hook_ops that are used to register the callbacks. However, in v5.14 I added the ability to dump the active netfilter hooks from userspace. This code will peek back into the nf_hook_ops that are available at the tail of the pointer-array blob used by the datapath. The nat hooks are special, because they are called indirectly from the central nat dispatcher hook. They are currently invisible to the nfnl hook dump subsystem though. But once that changes the nat ops structures have to be deferred too." Update nf_nat_register_fn() to deal with partial exposition of the hooks from error path which can be also an issue for nfnetlink_hook.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.14 ≤ v < 6.18.336.19 ≤ v < 7.0.105.14e2cf17d3774c323ef6dab6e9f7c0cfc5e742afd9
Vendor states this is fixed in 32fdd2e38e7435a368d88f5977a7d6585ebc8b0e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3c7511f38ab511b791196b13ae48bf4973bf7dfd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6eda0d771f94267f73f57c94630aa47e90957915 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.114 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.33 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:5.14.0-570.141.1.el9_6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.45.1.el9_8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:6.12.0-55.98.1.el10_0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8 (unaffected)

References (12)

Third Party Advisory
Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53000
Third Party Advisory
Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492273
Third Party Advisory
Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53000.json
Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:55445
Source: 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:64808

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-763

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