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CVE-2026-53221

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 0.51%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2026-06-25 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It affects Linux. It may be remotely exploitable.

CVE
CVE-2026-53221
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
0.51%
Linux

Original NVD Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_vti: fix incorrect tunnel matching in vti6_tnl_lookup() In vti6_tnl_lookup(), when an exact match for a tunnel fails, the code falls back to searching for wildcard tunnels: - Tunnels matching the packet's local address, with any remote address wildcard remote). - Tunnels matching the packet's remote address, with any local address (wildcard local). However, vti6 stores all these different types of tunnels in the same hash table (ip6n->tnls_r_l) prone to hash collisions. The bug is that the fallback search loops in vti6_tnl_lookup() were missing checks to ensure that the candidate tunnel actually has a wildcard address.

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