{"id":"CVE-2026-52931","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-52931","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:39:12.144Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars batadv_tp_recv_ack() and batadv_tp_stop() are only valid for tp_vars in the BATADV_TP_SENDER role.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars\n\nbatadv_tp_recv_ack() and batadv_tp_stop() are only valid for tp_vars in the\nBATADV_TP_SENDER role. When called with a BATADV_TP_RECEIVER role, it\nproceeds to read sender-only members that were never initialized, leading\nto undefined behavior.\n\nThis can be triggered when a node that is currently acting as a receiver in\nan ongoing tp_meter session receives a malicious ACK packet.\n\nGuard against this by checking tp_vars->role immediately after the\nlookup and bailing out if it is not BATADV_TP_SENDER, before any of\nthose members are accessed.","published":"2026-06-24T08:16:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T20:18:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-457"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00499,"percentile":0.42594,"date":"2026-10-27","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 (0.50%). 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/0e388af04b3958b178a1b979527f93eb46ea1fee","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a21c055f66e78973712a4a1be2a554f1ee2e4f4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53f931e0146ae5bdab4cba302646827d06b3794b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c65cf23d4c6170fcf5714c32aa64689718cb142","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85397e48afe6be83ffca5ad3f4792296bfc81d3d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9884c9c02d3c90e9215db3c5128f59045d20ae91","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc2ae5fbd2dadc26735092f140b246841d969a11","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecdaa3e4d91040206afe21bc8a0d1198a0971ff3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52931","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."}