CVE-2026-74618EPSS p10.0%
CVE-2026-74618CVE-2026-74618
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binfmt_misc: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace
fsopen() records the caller's user namespace in fc->user_ns and hands
back an ordinary file descriptor. Nothing ties the task that calls
fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) to the task that created the context. The
fd is inherited across fork() and exec() and it can be passed over a
unix socket.
Completing a context from another user namespace is allowed on purpose.
vfs_cmd_create() authorizes the create with mount_capable(), which for
FS_USERNS_MOUNT checks ns_capable(fc->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN), and that
succeeds for a task holding CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an ancestor of fc->user_ns.
So an unprivileged task can reach the WARN_ON() in bm_fill_super():
create a user and a mount namespace in a child, call
fsopen("binfmt_misc") there, send the fscontext fd to the parent and let
the parent issue FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE. Both namespaces come from a plain
unsh
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.21% probability of exploitation · percentile 10.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-22 |