Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-43114

CriticalUpdated

Published: 06 May 2026

Published
06 May 2026
Modified
30 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0036 27.6th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-43114 is a critical-severity Use of Incorrect Operator (CWE-480) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 9.4 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 27.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: don't return non-matching entry on expiry New test case fails unexpectedly when avx2 matching functions are used. The test first loads a ranomly generated pipapo set with 'ipv4…

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. port' key, i.e. nft -f foo. This works. Then, it reloads the set after a flush: (echo flush set t s; cat foo) | nft -f - This is expected to work, because its the same set after all and it was already loaded once. But with avx2, this fails: nft reports a clashing element. The reported clash is of following form: We successfully re-inserted a . b c . d Then we try to insert a . d avx2 finds the already existing a . d, which (due to 'flush set') is marked as invalid in the new generation. It skips the element and moves to next. Due to incorrect masking, the skip-step finds the next matching element *only considering the first field*, i.e. we return the already reinserted "a . b", even though the last field is different and the entry should not have been matched. No such error is reported for the generic c implementation (no avx2) or when the last field has to use the 'nft_pipapo_avx2_lookup_slow' fallback. Bisection points to 7711f4bb4b36 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix range overlap detection") but that fix merely uncovers this bug. Before this commit, the wrong element is returned, but erronously reported as a full, identical duplicate. The root-cause is too early return in the avx2 match functions. When we process the last field, we should continue to process data until the entire input size has been consumed to make sure no stale bits remain in the map.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
Why these techniques?

Kernel flaw in netfilter pipapo AVX2 set matching enables crafted nftables operations to trigger incorrect element returns, directly facilitating local exploitation for privilege escalation.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
7.0 · 5.7 — 6.6.136 · 6.7 — 6.12.83 · 6.13 — 6.18.24

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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