CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-63833

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the NTFS3 filesystem allows unprivileged users to write to reserved $LX* extended attributes (UID, GID, MOD, DEV). An attacker can set root ownership and SUID flag on their file, leading to privilege escalation to euid 0 after inode reload.

Risk Assessment

The organization faces a risk of local privilege escalation where an unprivileged user can gain full root access, potentially compromising the entire system.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that rejects direct userspace writes to reserved $LX* attributes in the NTFS3 filesystem.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs3: reject direct userspace writes to reserved $LX* xattrs NTFS3 uses $LXUID, $LXGID, $LXMOD and $LXDEV as internal WSL permission metadata and reloads them into i_uid, i_gid and i_mode from ntfs_get_wsl_perm(). Because the empty-prefix xattr handler also lets file owners call setxattr() on these names directly, an unprivileged writer on a writable ntfs3 mount can plant root ownership and S_ISUID on their own file and gain euid 0 after inode reload. Reject direct userspace writes to the reserved $LX* names. Internal ntfs3 metadata updates are unchanged because ntfs_save_wsl_perm() writes them via ntfs_set_ea() directly. [[email protected]: added an additional check for non privileged users]

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