CVE-2026-23330: nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)
- 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: 0.12% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 66083581945bd5b8e99fe49b5aeb83d03f62d053, 702029337b057085ea13f964822dcd95e0fe53f5, 75fdb22ef0635c02337de0c08c98f93f37b5cbee; cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0 Release Notes.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 66083581945bd5b8e99fe49b5aeb83d03f62d053, 702029337b057085ea13f964822dcd95e0fe53f5, 75fdb22ef0635c02337de0c08c98f93f37b5cbee; cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0 Release Notes 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: nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close In nci_close_device(), complete any pending data exchange before closing. The data exchange callback (e.g. rawsock_data_exchange_complete) holds a socket reference. NIPA occasionally hits this leak: unreferenced object 0xff1100000f435000 (size 2048): comm "nci_dev", pid 3954, jiffies 4295441245 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 27 00 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 '..@............ backtrace (crc ec2b3c5): __kmalloc_noprof+0x4db/0x730 sk_prot_alloc.isra.0+0xe4/0x1d0 sk_alloc+0x36/0x760 rawsock_create+0xd1/0x540 nfc_sock_create+0x11f/0x280 __sock_create+0x22d/0x630 __sys_socket+0x115/0x1d0 __x64_sys_socket+0x72/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x117/0xfc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
- Published
- Mar 25, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 2th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-401
Report tools
Action score
22
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux kernel | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- linux linux kernel3.2.1 and later · before 6.12.82
- linux linux kernel6.13 and later · before 6.18.17
- linux linux kernel6.19 and later · before 6.19.7
- linux linux kernel3.2
- linux linux kernel7.0
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
- 3.2affected
- 38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 and later · before 75fdb22ef0635c02337de0c08c98f93f37b5cbeeaffected · git
- 38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 and later · before 9df613ef6e8e873cdab969a11f74823488977f1faffected · git
- 38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 and later · before 702029337b057085ea13f964822dcd95e0fe53f5affected · git
- 38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 and later · before 91ff0d8c3464da7f0c43da38c195e60b660128bfaffected · git
- 38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 and later · before d05f55d68ebdebb2b0a8480d766eaae88c8c92deaffected · git
- 38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 and later · before 66083581945bd5b8e99fe49b5aeb83d03f62d053affected · git
- before 3.2not affected · semver
- 6.1.191 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
- 6.6.136 and later · up to and including 6.6.*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:13 | linux | before 6.12.85-1 | 6.12.85-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 6.19.8-1 | 6.19.8-1 |
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Published before and after this one in the same product
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- Later →CVE-2026-23335Mar 25, 2026 · RDMA/irdma: Fix kernel stack leak in irdma_create_user_ah()22Monitor
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 | 66083581945bd5b8e99fe49b5aeb83d03f62d053 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 702029337b057085ea13f964822dcd95e0fe53f5 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 75fdb22ef0635c02337de0c08c98f93f37b5cbee | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 91ff0d8c3464da7f0c43da38c195e60b660128bf | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 9df613ef6e8e873cdab969a11f74823488977f1f | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | d05f55d68ebdebb2b0a8480d766eaae88c8c92de | Vendor (CNA) |
| cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0 | Release Notes | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| debian:linux | 6.12.85-1 · Debian:13 | 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.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
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
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
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).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-primary
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
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- git.kernel.org/stable/c/702029337b057085ea13f964822dcd95e0fe53f5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/75fdb22ef0635c02337de0c08c98f93f37b5cbee
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/91ff0d8c3464da7f0c43da38c195e60b660128bf
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9df613ef6e8e873cdab969a11f74823488977f1f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d05f55d68ebdebb2b0a8480d766eaae88c8c92de
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.