CVE-2026-68432
vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink
Record summary
CVE-2026-68432 has a selected CVSS score of 8.8 (high).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the sticky underlay netns vxlan->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in vxlan->net can rewrite a vxlan device whose underlay lives in vxlan->net. vxlan_changelink() validates and applies the new configuration against vxlan->net (vxlan_config_validate(vxlan->net, ...)) and can reopen the underlay socket in that netns, so the same reasoning as the tunnel changelink series applies here. Gate vxlan_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and the rest of the "require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink" series. Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Affected products and versions
2| Product | Source | Version range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
LinuxBrowse Linux / LinuxDefault status: unaffected, affected | CVE List | 8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792 to < b3793d7dccb192ffff29894d11824db6251acdd5 | affected |
| 8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792 to < 32d10c46bfde3e9b274e9e1bd6399d0ebea8f60f | affected | ||
| 8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792 to < 730c7e5fea7f06e0cdf21c547222ec93234fd1d6 | affected | ||
| 8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792 to < e8ad0d311e225939a9a6c745d6cc384c7364ec87 | affected | ||
| 8bcdc4f3a20be949df54b67e5ae2734daabb5792 to < 3a61bd9637f3d929aa846e4eb3d98b48c26fcb0e | affected | ||
| 4.11 | affected | ||
| Before 4.11 | unaffected | ||
| 6.6.148 to ≤ 6.6.* | unaffected | ||
| 6.12.101 to ≤ 6.12.* | unaffected | ||
| 6.18.42 to ≤ 6.18.* | unaffected | ||
| 7.1.6 to ≤ 7.1.* | unaffected | ||
| 7.2-rc5 to ≤ * | unaffected | ||
KernelBrowse Linux / Kernel | OSV | 4.11.0 to < 6.6.148 · Fixed in 6.6.148 | affected |
| 6.7.0 to < 6.12.101 · Fixed in 6.12.101 | affected | ||
| 6.13.0 to < 6.18.42 · Fixed in 6.18.42 | affected | ||
| 6.19.0 to < 7.1.6 · Fixed in 7.1.6 | affected |