CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64375

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

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

Summary

In procfs, a race condition was found in proc_pid_get_link() and proc_pid_readlink(). The ptrace access check and task lookup are performed separately, allowing a race.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit the race to access file descriptors of a process they are not authorized to, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that introduces a new helper call_proc_get_link() which locks the task before the access check.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links) proc_pid_get_link() and proc_pid_readlink() currently look up the task from the pid once, then do the ptrace access check on that task, then look up the task from the pid a second time to do the actual access. That's racy in several ways. To fix it, pass the task to the ->proc_get_link() handler, and instead of proc_fd_access_allowed(), introduce a new helper call_proc_get_link() that looks up and locks the task, does the access check, and calls ->proc_get_link().

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