xfrm: route MIGRATE notifications to caller's netns (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-63914
HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: route MIGRATE notifications to caller's netns xfrm_send_migrate() in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c and pfkey_send_migrate() in net/key/af_key.c both hardcode &init_net for the multicast that announces a successful XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE / SADB_X_MIGRATE. XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE arrives on a per-netns NETLINK_XFRM socket, and the rest of the xfrm/af_key netlink path was made netns-aware in 2008. The other 14 multicast paths in xfrm_user.c route their event using xs_net(x), xp_net(xp) or sock_net(skb->sk); only the migrate path was missed. Two consequences of the init_net hardcoding: 1. The notification (selector, old/new endpoint addresses, and the km_address) is delivered to listeners on init_net's XFRMNLGRP_MIGRATE / pfkey BROADCAST_ALL groups rather than on the issuing netns. An IKE daemon running in init_net therefore receives migration notifications originating from any other netns on the host. 2. An IKE daemon running inside a non-init netns and subscribed to its own XFRMNLGRP_MIGRATE / pfkey groups never receives the notification of its own migration. IKEv2 MOBIKE / address-update handling inside a netns is silently broken. Thread struct net through km_migrate() and the xfrm_mgr.migrate function pointer, drop the &init_net override in xfrm_send_migrate() and pfkey_send_migrate(), and pass the caller's net (already in scope in xfrm_migrate() via sock_net(skb->sk)) all the way down. struct xfrm_mgr is in-tree only and not exported as a stable API, so the function-pointer signature change is internal. pfkey_broadcast() is already netns-aware via net_generic(net, pfkey_net_id) since the pernet conversion. The five other pfkey_broadcast() callers in af_key.c already pass xs_net(x), sock_net(sk) or a per-netns net, so this only removes the &init_net outlier.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
  • CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:LLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:LNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 5c79de6e79cd8ecfbae28886be3ee49044f3a4d4 < bafc7d0774b9bf52909c70ed990bc5ccf7ec4bad ; affected 5c79de6e79cd8ecfbae28886be3ee49044f3a4d4 < 6df8157547347b5257bf640a0ae3dfc4411e06cd ; affected 5c79de6e79cd8ecfbae28886be3ee49044f3a4d4 < fe463798343382c8fe9416a95959f005a3c30aa5 ; affected 5c79de6e79cd8ecfbae28886be3ee49044f3a4d4 < 00f2c451e57df50b1151d9b2254878f106b7c892 ; affected 5c79de6e79cd8ecfbae28886be3ee49044f3a4d4 < a306cf2ac8849c487791369fad6f216399d000f6 ; affected 5c79de6e79cd8ecfbae28886be3ee49044f3a4d4 < 448bb92ca101dde8a6e88b4dc824044b4e341604
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.21 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.21 ; unaffected 5.10.259 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.143 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD