CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-23060

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's authencesn crypto module allows a kernel panic (DoS) via a too-short AAD (assoclen<8). Missing validation of the authentication data length leads to an out-of-bounds read on the destination scatterlist and a NULL pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash the system (kernel panic) by sending a crafted IPsec packet with an invalid AAD field, resulting in denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit adding minimum AAD length check).

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec authencesn assumes an ESP/ESN-formatted AAD. When assoclen is shorter than the minimum expected length, crypto_authenc_esn_decrypt() can advance past the end of the destination scatterlist and trigger a NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk_map_and_copy(), leading to a kernel panic (DoS). Add a minimum AAD length check to fail fast on invalid inputs.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS