tipc: require net admin for TIPCv2 netlink mutators (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74283
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: require net admin for TIPCv2 netlink mutators TIPCv2 registers mutating generic-netlink operations without admin permission flags. Generic netlink only checks CAP_NET_ADMIN when an operation sets GENL_ADMIN_PERM or GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM, so a local unprivileged process can currently change TIPC state through commands such as TIPC_NL_NET_SET, TIPC_NL_KEY_SET, TIPC_NL_KEY_FLUSH, and bearer enable/disable. The legacy TIPC netlink API already checks netlink_net_capable(..., CAP_NET_ADMIN) for administrative commands. Give the TIPCv2 mutators the equivalent generic-netlink gate. Use GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM, which maps to the same namespace-aware CAP_NET_ADMIN check that netlink_net_capable() performs, so the behaviour matches the legacy path and keeps working for CAP_NET_ADMIN holders in a non-initial user namespace (containers). A QEMU/KASAN repro run as uid/gid 65534 with zero effective capabilities previously succeeded in changing the network id and node identity, setting and flushing key material, and enabling/disabling a UDP bearer. With this patch applied the same operations fail with -EPERM.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf < b06fb5f78a9af0929aaa47c92d0b7bca0617fb25 ; affected 0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf < 52864c6c13dcc292481eabfeb3c31a86c3ec06f2 ; affected 0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf < e87dcc1a644d087de0bb6c94c6dd28c29b89597f ; affected 0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf < 9b937de4b3ded62a24da6e8d9d623cdb2748fa74 ; affected 0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf < c9668a4adb2264625daeeabc7466b783badd4614 ; affected 0655f6a8635b1b66f2434d5556b1044c14b1ccaf < cebaefe1aceb650d5c99a4c0e1a4dde09e211818
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.19 ; unaffected 0 < 3.19 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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