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CVE-2026-53168 MEDIUM

Published: 2026-06-25 | Last Modified: 2026-07-06 | Status: Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecache contents. For directories with FOPEN_CACHE_DIR, the pagecache is used as kernel-internal cache storage, and userspace is not supposed to have direct access to this cache - in particular, fuse_parse_cache() will hit WARN_ON() if the cache contains bogus data. Reject FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE on anything other than regular files with -EINVAL.

CVSS Metrics

Base Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
Confidentiality ImpactNONE
Integrity ImpactNONE
Availability ImpactHIGH

Source: [email protected]

Type: Primary

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Impact Score: 3.6

Weaknesses

Source Type Description
[email protected] Primary
en NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

Vendor Product Version Update Type
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd38544adc0> Operating System
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd36b435a00> Operating System
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd368335600> Operating System
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd36066ae80> Operating System
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd36b3f0bc0> Operating System
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd385616d80> Operating System
linux linux_kernel * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd2a159fc80> Operating System
linux linux_kernel 7.1 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd36b434500> Operating System
linux linux_kernel 7.1 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd36a714940> Operating System
linux linux_kernel 7.1 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd385449f40> Operating System
linux linux_kernel 7.1 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd289dc6b00> Operating System
linux linux_kernel 7.1 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd38477ce80> Operating System
linux linux_kernel 7.1 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7fd2a159fb80> Operating System

Affected Configurations

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*

References