CVE-2026-31476HIGH 8.2EPSS p38.7%
CVE-2026-31476CVE-2026-31476
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: do not expire session on binding failure
When a multichannel session binding request fails (e.g. wrong password),
the error path unconditionally sets sess->state = SMB2_SESSION_EXPIRED.
However, during binding, sess points to the target session looked up via
ksmbd_session_lookup_slowpath() -- which belongs to another connection's
user. This allows a remote attacker to invalidate any active session by
simply sending a binding request with a wrong password (DoS).
Fix this by skipping session expiration when the failed request was
a binding attempt, since the session does not belong to the current
connection. The reference taken by ksmbd_session_lookup_slowpath() is
still correctly released via ksmbd_user_session_put().
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.2 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.50% probability of exploitation · percentile 38.7% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2026-04-22 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-01 |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d1888b4a7aec518b707f6eca0bf08992c0e8da3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fafc4c4238e538969f1375f9ecdc6587c53f1cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bbb19d21ded7d78645506f20d8c44895e3d0fb9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a897064a457056acb976e20e3007cdf553de340f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0e5edc81b241c70355217de7e120c97c3429deb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5300690c23c5ac860499bb37dbc09cf43fd62e6
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