CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53001

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 netfilter xtables module incorrectly uses NFPROTO_UNSPEC in the xt_mac, xt_owner, xt_physdev, and xt_realm extensions. This causes filtering rules to be applied to unexpected protocol families, potentially leading to firewall misconfiguration.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience incorrect firewall behavior where rules intended for IPv4/IPv6 are applied to other protocol families, potentially resulting in unauthorized access or network traffic blocking.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that restricts the mentioned extensions to the inet family (IPv4/IPv6) only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xtables: restrict several matches to inet family This is a partial revert of: commit ab4f21e6fb1c ("netfilter: xtables: use NFPROTO_UNSPEC in more extensions") to allow ipv4 and ipv6 only. - xt_mac - xt_owner - xt_physdev These extensions are not used by ebtables in userspace. Moreover, xt_realm is only for ipv4, since dst->tclassid is ipv4 specific.

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