CVE-2026-99096
Received
Received - Intake
Linux Kernel io_uring Task Restriction Bypass
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-99096, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-26
Last updated on: 2026-10-26
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/register: don't exempt disabled rings from task restrictions
A ring created with IORING_SETUP_R_DISABLED is exempt from its register
restrictions until it is enabled. This lets the creator register the
restrictions and then enable the ring with IORING_REGISTER_ENABLE_RINGS,
whether or not that opcode is in the allowed set.
Since commit ed82f35b926b ("io_uring: allow registration of per-task
restrictions"), a ring also inherits restrictions from the task that
creates it, and the same exemption applies to those. A task whose
register opcodes are restricted can therefore create a disabled ring,
issue any register opcode on it, and then enable it.
Mark rings whose restrictions were inherited from the task, and keep
checking register opcodes for them while the ring is disabled. Enabling
such a ring now requires IORING_REGISTER_ENABLE_RINGS to be in the
task's allowed set. Per-ring restrictions registered on a disabled ring
work as before.
[axboe: amend with inheritance flag fixup]
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
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| CWE-UNKNOWN |
