CVE-2026-89554

mptcp: fix uninitialized local_id in syncookie MP_JOIN reconstruction

HIGH
8.2
CVSS Score
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:44 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix uninitialized local_id in syncookie MP_JOIN reconstruction mptcp_token_join_cookie_init_state() restores remote_nonce, local_nonce, backup, join_id, token and msk from the saved cookie entry when rebuilding the request socket for a MP_JOIN 4th-ACK handled under SYN cookies, but it does not restore local_id, even though the SYN path saved it. subflow_ulp_clone() then reads that uninitialized field and stores it as the joined subflow's address-ID. Because the request-sock slab is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and not zeroed on allocation, the value is the stale byte of a previously freed request socket, which an off-path peer can influence by sending concurrent MP_JOIN SYNs. This corrupts the path manager's id-based subflow bookkeeping for the connection. Restore subflow_req->local_id from the cookie entry, as done for the other fields.

Affected

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

5.99466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8
Vendor states this is fixed in 4534e0eead692bb069ad1e6a5a245fc2e2078300 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 51887ccd88791ddaa8755a7c614fda031ecf7982 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 63cacb05e51a1c6e1349d2e593d00fd6ef43def4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 64f2c5dd49b956a542c8c02b8dad5d262a462bba (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 954b5ea836eb118d188975ced803448537ab8479 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9df36a4846375a9b75bf42d77bfed216b0f366f9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b878dfdd12d7a5b8722a78d35e313506140ca3d9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bf19d166337c6488b39cb03eeeffb30a941d6326 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.109 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.50 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.2HIGHLinux
Vector?

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