{"id":"CVE-2026-31611","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-31611","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:19:58.747Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: require 3 sub-authorities before reading sub_auth[2] parse_dacl() compares each ACE SID against sid_unix_NFS_mode and on match reads sid.sub_auth[2] as the file mode.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: require 3 sub-authorities before reading sub_auth[2]\n\nparse_dacl() compares each ACE SID against sid_unix_NFS_mode and on\nmatch reads sid.sub_auth[2] as the file mode.  If sid_unix_NFS_mode is\nthe prefix S-1-5-88-3 with num_subauth = 2 then compare_sids() compares\nonly min(num_subauth, 2) sub-authorities so a client SID with\nnum_subauth = 2 and sub_auth = {88, 3} will match.\n\nIf num_subauth = 2 and the ACE is placed at the very end of the security\ndescriptor, sub_auth[2] will be  4 bytes past end_of_acl.  The\nout-of-band bytes will then be masked to the low 9 bits and applied as\nthe file's POSIX mode, probably not something that is good to have\nhappen.\n\nFix this up by forcing the SID to actually carry a third sub-authority\nbefore reading it at all.","published":"2026-04-24T15:16:40.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T02:19:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00375,"percentile":0.31208,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08f9e6d899b5c834bbcc239eae1bed58d9b15d2c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46bbcd3ebfb3549c8da1838fc4493e79bd3241e7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53370cf9090777774e07fd9a8ebce67c6cc333ab","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9401f86a224f37b50e6a3ccf1d46a70d5ef8af0a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5b5d5936a50497fb151c0b122899a6894721c2b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf2148b880fb7c0fcd727202dbc4fd5d6998b9c2","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2454f4a002d08560a60f214f392e6491cf11560","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31611","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}