{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-53221", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-06-09T07:44:35.392Z", "datePublished": "2026-06-25T08:39:23.177Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:34:14.672Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:34:14.672Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_lookup()\n\nIn vti6_tnl_lookup(), when an exact match for a tunnel fails,\nthe code falls back to searching for wildcard tunnels:\n\n- Tunnels matching the packet's local address, with any remote address\n wildcard remote).\n\n- Tunnels matching the packet's remote address, with any local address\n (wildcard local).\n\nHowever, vti6 stores all these different types of tunnels in the same\nhash table (ip6n->tnls_r_l) prone to hash collisions.\n\nThe bug is that the fallback search loops in vti6_tnl_lookup() were\nmissing checks to ensure that the candidate tunnel actually has\na wildcard address." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 9.8, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The vulnerable lookup is reached from IPv6 packet input through registered XFRM ESP/AH/IPComp and IP-in-IPv6 tunnel handlers, so a remote peer can trigger it with network traffic.\nAC:L - The bug is a deterministic missing wildcard-address check in a small hash table; once a plausible VTI6 configuration with colliding wildcard/exact tunnel entries exists, chosen packets reliably exercise the wrong lookup.\nPR:N - The packet receive path reaches `vti6_tnl_lookup()` before any per-packet authentication succeeds, and no local privilege is needed to send the triggering IPv6 traffic.\nUI:N - No victim user action is required; packets are processed by the kernel networking receive path.\nS:U - The impact remains within the kernel/networking security authority and does not by itself cross a VM, IOMMU, or host boundary.\nC:H - Wrong tunnel selection can associate decapsulated traffic with another VTI device, mark, and policy context; in a multi-tenant IPsec/VTI gateway this can expose tunneled plaintext across tunnel boundaries.\nI:H - The same confusion can deliver attacker-controlled inner packets under the wrong tunnel interface and policy context, enabling unauthorized modification or injection of traffic in the affected tunnel domain.\nA:H - Incorrect matching can consistently drop or misprocess traffic for affected tunnels, allowing loss of availability of the VTI/IPsec connectivity in vulnerable configurations." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": 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