CVE-2026-53001

Low

No strong exploitation signal.

CVSS base

5.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)

0.1%

2.6th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

Weakness / dates

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Published 2026-06-24 · modified 2026-09-08

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector	L	Local
Attack Complexity	L	Low
Privileges Required	L	Low
User Interaction	N	None
Scope	U	Unchanged
Confidentiality	N	None
Integrity	N	None
Availability	H	High

Timeline

2026-06-24 — Published (NVD)
2026-09-08 — Last modified (NVD)

Description

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.

Affected

linux

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org