nfsd: gate nfs2 setacl by argp->mask
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)
- 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: 0.52% (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 37eea38e7898538f0ec5f1eb8b18d8646e4be41c, 8e4422b05f410f95c51b68a0db4bf1d87f6d22f5, a3a7e20ed66d3f04d37883c398da8a113b430769.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 37eea38e7898538f0ec5f1eb8b18d8646e4be41c, 8e4422b05f410f95c51b68a0db4bf1d87f6d22f5, a3a7e20ed66d3f04d37883c398da8a113b430769 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: nfsd: gate nfs2 setacl by argp->mask The NFSACL v2 SETACL path shares the decoder convention used by its v3 sibling: nfsaclsvc_decode_setaclargs() fills in argp->acl_access only when NFS_ACL is set in the request mask and argp->acl_default only when NFS_DFACL is set, leaving the other pointer NULL because the argument buffer is zeroed up to pc_argzero before decode. nfsacld_proc_setacl() then hands both pointers to set_posix_acl() unconditionally. set_posix_acl(idmap, dentry, type, NULL) is the VFS "remove this ACL type" operation, so an omitted arm is indistinguishable from an explicit request to delete that ACL. A SETACL carrying only NFS_ACL silently strips the directory's default ACL; mask=0 strips both. This is the same defect just fixed in nfsd3_proc_setacl(); apply the same remedy. Gate each set_posix_acl() call on its mask bit and initialize error to 0 so that a request with neither bit set leaves the on-disk ACLs untouched and returns success. The out_drop_lock path and the unconditional posix_acl_release() in nfsaclsvc_release_setacl() already tolerate the skipped arms.
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 43th percentile
- CWE
- —
Report tools
Action score
36
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 36 / 40 · 9.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Linux
- 9.1
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Linux Linux
- 2.6.13affected
- a257cdd0e2179630d3201c32ba14d7fcb3c3a055 and later · before 8e4422b05f410f95c51b68a0db4bf1d87f6d22f5affected · git
- a257cdd0e2179630d3201c32ba14d7fcb3c3a055 and later · before e41d173d9dc735cecb15ab7aa63ecab09338f81baffected · git
- a257cdd0e2179630d3201c32ba14d7fcb3c3a055 and later · before f951b22dbeec46f2e0fba81cb80d1b0c686b61ebaffected · git
- a257cdd0e2179630d3201c32ba14d7fcb3c3a055 and later · before 37eea38e7898538f0ec5f1eb8b18d8646e4be41caffected · git
- a257cdd0e2179630d3201c32ba14d7fcb3c3a055 and later · before a3a7e20ed66d3f04d37883c398da8a113b430769affected · git
- before 2.6.13not affected · semver
- 6.6.157 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
- 6.12.109 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
- 6.18.50 and later · up to and including 6.18.*not affected · semver
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | from 0 | — |
| Debian:12 | linux-6.12 | before 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 | 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 |
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.12.111-1 | 6.12.111-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.2.6-1 | 7.2.6-1 |
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-89670Sep 11, 2026 · nfsd: hold rcu across localio cmpxchg retry31Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-89671Sep 11, 2026 · nfsd: gate nfs3 setacl by argp->mask36Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-89673Sep 11, 2026 · nfsd: fix XDR padding calculation in ff_encode_getdeviceinfo0Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 37eea38e7898538f0ec5f1eb8b18d8646e4be41c | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 8e4422b05f410f95c51b68a0db4bf1d87f6d22f5 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | a3a7e20ed66d3f04d37883c398da8a113b430769 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | e41d173d9dc735cecb15ab7aa63ecab09338f81b | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | f951b22dbeec46f2e0fba81cb80d1b0c686b61eb | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 6.12.111-1 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
| debian:linux-6.12 | 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
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.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-1085 · Sep 14, 2026(Linux Kernel Güvenlik Bildirimi)
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
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- None
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:N
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- SSVC exploitation— → none
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.