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CVE-2026-74384: nvme-multipath: fix flex array size in struct nvme_ns_head

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.51% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 001e57554de81aa79c25c18fd53911d8a415c304, 140d6fff4ed266592492a23444043842b4af7a62, 1d4131b5c9823c7d2c86389898ad1b466af7df5e.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 001e57554de81aa79c25c18fd53911d8a415c304, 140d6fff4ed266592492a23444043842b4af7a62, 1d4131b5c9823c7d2c86389898ad1b466af7df5e or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-multipath: fix flex array size in struct nvme_ns_head struct nvme_ns_head contains a flexible array member, current_path[], which is indexed using the NUMA node ID: head->current_path[numa_node_id()] The structure is currently allocated as: size = sizeof(struct nvme_ns_head) + (num_possible_nodes() * sizeof(struct nvme_ns *)); head = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); This allocation assumes that NUMA node IDs are sequential and densely packed from 0 .. num_possible_nodes() - 1. While this assumption holds on many systems, it is not always true on some architectures such as powerpc. On some powerpc systems, NUMA node IDs can be sparse. For example: NUMA: NUMA node(s): 6 NUMA node0 CPU(s): 80-159 NUMA node8 CPU(s): 0-79 NUMA node252 CPU(s): NUMA node253 CPU(s): NUMA node254 CPU(s): NUMA node255 CPU(s): That is, the possible/online NUMA node IDs are: 0, 8, 252, 253, 254, 255 In this case: num_possible_nodes() = 6 So memory is allocated for only 6 entries in current_path[]. However, the array is later indexed using the actual NUMA node ID. As a result, accesses such as: head->current_path[8] or head->current_path[252] goes out of bounds, leading to the following KASAN splat: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths+0x22c/0x290 [nvme_core] Write of size 8 at addr c00020003bda35b8 by task kworker/u641:2/1997 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1997 Comm: kworker/u641:2 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc5-dirty #14 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: 8335-GTH POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:skiboot-v6.5.3-35-g1851b2a06 PowerNV Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn Call Trace: [c000200037fa7510] [c0000000021c23d4] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xdc (unreliable) [c000200037fa7540] [c0000000009fda90] print_report+0x22c/0x67c [c000200037fa7630] [c0000000009fd508] kasan_report+0x108/0x220 [c000200037fa7740] [c0000000009fff48] __asan_store8+0xe8/0x120 [c000200037fa7760] [c008000018e76474] nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths+0x22c/0x290 [nvme_core] [c000200037fa7800] [c008000018e6556c] nvme_update_ns_info+0x4a4/0x5e0 [nvme_core] [c000200037fa7a50] [c008000018e66270] nvme_alloc_ns+0x6d8/0x1a70 [nvme_core] [c000200037fa7c20] [c008000018e679fc] nvme_scan_ns+0x3f4/0x630 [nvme_core] [c000200037fa7d10] [c00000000031f22c] async_run_entry_fn+0x9c/0x3a0 [c000200037fa7db0] [c0000000002fa544] process_one_work+0x414/0xa10 [c000200037fa7ec0] [c0000000002fbf00] worker_thread+0x320/0x640 [c000200037fa7f80] [c00000000030d0f8] kthread+0x278/0x290 [c000200037fa7fe0] [c00000000000ded8] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18 Allocated by task 1997 on cpu 1 at 35.928317s: The buggy address belongs to the object at c00020003bda3000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-rnd-15-2k of size 2048 The buggy address is located 16 bytes to the right of allocated 1448-byte region [c00020003bda3000, c00020003bda35a8) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: Memory state around the buggy address: c00020003bda3480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c00020003bda3500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >c00020003bda3580: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ^ c00020003bda3600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc c00020003bda3680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ================================================================== Fix this by allocating the flexible array using nr_node_ids instead of num_possible_nodes(). Since nr_node_ids represents the maximum possible NUMA node IDs, indexing current_path[] using numa_node_id() becomes safe even on systems with sparse node IDs.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 43th percentile
CWE
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Action score

39

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

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Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Linux Linux

    • 4.20affected
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 7e7b167e65610dfa7564d449474f4b477f9d4c1caffected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 316b5f1168264844aa125959de1d6da2b1905795affected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 1d4131b5c9823c7d2c86389898ad1b466af7df5eaffected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 9ffdd11bd6c961b46b3689850ff6c5d7af5c5fe5affected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before bde4d6eb53f7d3cdae7e62c9ee84345fdd6e70a6affected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 140d6fff4ed266592492a23444043842b4af7a62affected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 7173a741fed73de6247384056fe92e582ba12507affected · git
    • f333444708f82c4a4d3ccac004da0bfd9cfdfa42 and later · before 001e57554de81aa79c25c18fd53911d8a415c304affected · git
    • before 4.20not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.1.180-16.1.180-1
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.12.100-16.12.100-1
Debian:14linuxbefore 7.1.5-17.1.5-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-74378Aug 15, 2026 · RDMA/rxe: Fix TOCTOU heap overflow in get_srq_wqe
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-74380Aug 15, 2026 · gpu: host1x: Fix iommu_map_sgtable() return value check
    35Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-74385Aug 15, 2026 · nvmet-tcp: check return value of nvmet_tcp_set_queue_sock
    30Monitor

Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux001e57554de81aa79c25c18fd53911d8a415c304Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux140d6fff4ed266592492a23444043842b4af7a62Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux1d4131b5c9823c7d2c86389898ad1b466af7df5eVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux316b5f1168264844aa125959de1d6da2b1905795Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux7173a741fed73de6247384056fe92e582ba12507Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux7e7b167e65610dfa7564d449474f4b477f9d4c1cVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux9ffdd11bd6c961b46b3689850ff6c5d7af5c5fe5Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxbde4d6eb53f7d3cdae7e62c9ee84345fdd6e70a6Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.1.180-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Fix✗ → ✓

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