Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-53309

Critical

Published: 26 June 2026

Published
26 June 2026
Modified
30 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0040 32.4th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-53309 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Kernel (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 32.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2/dlm: fix off-by-one in dlm_match_regions() region comparison The local-vs-remote region comparison loop uses '<=' instead of '<', causing it to read one entry past the valid range of qr_regions. The…

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other loops in the same function correctly use '<'. Fix the loop condition to use '<' for consistency and correctness.

CWE(s)
None listed

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 out-of-bounds read in OCFS2 DLM enables local or cluster-triggered privilege escalation via memory corruption.

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

Affected Assets

Kernel
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

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

References