{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-89480", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-09-11T19:38:34.711Z", "datePublished": "2026-09-11T19:43:35.930Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:47:29.641Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:47:29.641Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes\n\nnvme_tcp_recv_data() completes a request once the current C2HData PDU\nhas been consumed. Nothing compares the total bytes received against\nthe length the command asked for: struct nvme_tcp_request has no\nreceive-side counter, queue->data_remaining is per queue, and\nblk_mq_end_request() completes for blk_rq_bytes(rq) unconditionally\nwith no residual concept anywhere above.\n\nA controller can therefore answer a 4096-byte read with 512 bytes and\nhave it reported as a complete read; user space then gets 4096 bytes of\nwhich 3584 are whatever was already in the page. I reproduced that with\na test target.\n\nCount the bytes received and refuse to complete a successful read whose\ncount does not match, at the two NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS paths and in\nnvme_tcp_process_nvme_cqe(). The success test shifts req->status right\nby one, because the driver keeps the wire value there and shifts it on\ncompletion, so the check must see what the completion path will see.\nOnly REQ_OP_READ is checked, because there the length comes from the\nsectors the request covers; a passthrough command is built by its\nsubmitter, which picks both command and buffer, so the kernel has\nnothing to compare against." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - C2HData is parsed on the nvme-tcp host socket path (nvme_tcp_data_ready -> nvme_tcp_try_recv -> nvme_tcp_recv_skb -> nvme_tcp_recv_data) over routable TCP (typically 4420). A malicious or compromised NVMe-oF target, or an on-path injector into the default-unencrypted stream, triggers it from the network.\nAC:L - nvme_tcp_handle_c2h_data() sets queue->data_remaining from the attacker-controlled PDU data_length with no comparison to req->data_len. A short or zero-length C2HData with NVME_TCP_F_DATA_SUCCESS, or a short C2HData plus a success CQE, completes the read every time; no race or layout dependence.\nPR:N - The attacker is the NVMe-oF peer and needs no host account or capability. NVMe/TCP is unauthenticated by default (DH-HMAC-CHAP and TLS are optional), so a malicious, compromised, or spoofed target can short any in-flight read once the fabrics connection exists.\nUI:N - NVMe-oF controllers are persistent boot/autoconnect configuration and are re-established by nvme_tcp_error_recovery(). Namespace scan, partition probe, udev, and mounted-filesystem readahead issue REQ_OP_READ from kernel work without further victim action at attack time.\nS:U - Leftover host page-cache and buddy-page contents are exposed to local readers of the same kernel's NVMe device. No VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - blk_mq_end_request() completes the full blk_rq_bytes, so userspace and page cache see leftover destination-page bytes as valid data. Those pages are not zeroed; sibling CVE-2026-89481 showed they hold stale kernel data including struct page pointers. Leak size is attacker-chosen up to the whole I/O, including a 0-length SUCCESS PDU.\nI:N - The bug under-fills the bio and reports success; it does not write out of bounds, free an object, or give a kernel write/hijack primitive. Bytes the target does send are data a storage controller already controls, and leftover bytes are prior page contents rather than attacker-chosen writes.\nA:N - The vulnerable path completes the request as success with no oops, panic, hang, deadlock, or leak. Availability of the host kernel is unaffected; error recovery (-EPROTO) exists only after the fix." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "a5c1bb0fb1bab2f24a081339c145870697f6d220", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "aa107e3a68f4af177d60f2d87679e7f67179a36c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "fca3ebb63e5c82561cd9934365dcc0d068008006", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "99066cf9bba175f610ceb61a35f6fc9fbc33ff65", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "8a02ad98798fd01f51f648c1fdd8f3c9d07195d3", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "832a685efeb5d925ee7d30011d2dbe45f81447a3", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "3f2304f8c6d6ed97849057bd16fee99e434ca796", "lessThan": "7fa3f73f6c8ddc5f0425b50fb2a626a782ef7d12", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.0", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.15.221", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.1.188", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.6.157", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.109", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.50", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2.4", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "5.15.221" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.188" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.157" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.109" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.50" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.4" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.0", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c1bb0fb1bab2f24a081339c145870697f6d220" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa107e3a68f4af177d60f2d87679e7f67179a36c" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fca3ebb63e5c82561cd9934365dcc0d068008006" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99066cf9bba175f610ceb61a35f6fc9fbc33ff65" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a02ad98798fd01f51f648c1fdd8f3c9d07195d3" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/832a685efeb5d925ee7d30011d2dbe45f81447a3" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa3f73f6c8ddc5f0425b50fb2a626a782ef7d12" } ], "title": "nvme-tcp: reject a read that transferred too few bytes", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } }, "adp": [ { "metrics": [ { "other": { "type": "ssvc", "content": { "id": "CVE-2026-89480", "role": "CISA Coordinator", "options": [ { "Exploitation": "none" }, { "Automatable": "yes" }, { "Technical Impact": "partial" } ], "version": "2.0.3", "timestamp": "2026-10-16T19:22:32.814624Z" } } } ], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-16T19:26:39.543Z" } } ] } }