CVE-2026-89554

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix uninitialized local_id in syncookie MP_JOIN reconstruction mptcp_token_join_cookie_init_state() restores remote_nonce, local_nonce, backup, join_id, token and msk from the saved cookie entry when rebuilding the request socket for a MP_JOIN 4th-ACK handled under SYN cookies, but it does not restore local_id, even though the SYN path saved it. subflow_ulp_clone() then reads that uninitialized field and stores it as the joined subflow's address-ID. Because the request-sock slab is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and not zeroed on allocation, the value is the stale byte of a previously freed request socket, which an off-path peer can influence by sending concurrent MP_JOIN SYNs. This corrupts the path manager's id-based subflow bookkeeping for the connection. Restore subflow_req->local_id from the cookie entry, as done for the other fields.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf19d166337c6488b39cb03eeeffb30a941d6326

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b878dfdd12d7a5b8722a78d35e313506140ca3d9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64f2c5dd49b956a542c8c02b8dad5d262a462bba

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51887ccd88791ddaa8755a7c614fda031ecf7982

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209