VulnerabilityPublished 24 Jun 2026Updated 19 Oct 2026

CVE-2026-52975: Linux kernel · bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator

Affects Linux kernelSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High · fixed in c169c5837525ad842df6a542facf52b6f866a519 : patch Linux kernel soon.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 13:47 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.8High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 1% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation: No evidence of active exploitation and no public proof of concept
Automatable: Attackers cannot reliably automate steps 1–4 of the kill chain
Technical impact: Total control over the software or total information disclosure

CISA SSVC assessment, 2026-10-16.

Patch

Available – fixed in c169c5837525ad842df6a542facf52b6f866a519, c4f050ce06c56cfb5993268af4a5cb66ed1cd04e, ba2272be04f0cb1e74e1e355ff32ef95df280731 +3

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

Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Local: The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities. Either: the attacker exploits the vulnerability by accessing the target system locally (e.g., keyboard, console), or remotely (e.g., SSH); or the attacker relies on User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability (e.g., tricking a legitimate user into opening a malicious document).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 24 Jun 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade to a fixed release listed under Affected software.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
LinuxLinux	Affected ≥ 47e91f56008b43e1365e8d1d4a6813fe8a33b6f6, < c169c5837525ad842df6a542facf52b6f866a519	Fixed in c169c5837525ad842df6a542facf52b6f866a519
LinuxLinux	Affected ≥ 47e91f56008b43e1365e8d1d4a6813fe8a33b6f6, < c4f050ce06c56cfb5993268af4a5cb66ed1cd04e	Fixed in c4f050ce06c56cfb5993268af4a5cb66ed1cd04e
LinuxLinux	Affected ≥ 47e91f56008b43e1365e8d1d4a6813fe8a33b6f6, < ba2272be04f0cb1e74e1e355ff32ef95df280731	Fixed in ba2272be04f0cb1e74e1e355ff32ef95df280731
LinuxLinux	Affected ≥ 47e91f56008b43e1365e8d1d4a6813fe8a33b6f6, < 78f409fd34fe9de2b24ad8e9dca1b4608a48ed3d	Fixed in 78f409fd34fe9de2b24ad8e9dca1b4608a48ed3d
LinuxLinux	Affected ≥ 47e91f56008b43e1365e8d1d4a6813fe8a33b6f6, < 5fb9ea4e8ebf514d92df2b6c9d0db25ba02ac735	Fixed in 5fb9ea4e8ebf514d92df2b6c9d0db25ba02ac735
LinuxLinux	Affected ≥ 47e91f56008b43e1365e8d1d4a6813fe8a33b6f6, < 3b7265b3a82f40d2357c4004b26eb794a095b186	Fixed in 3b7265b3a82f40d2357c4004b26eb794a095b186

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator syzbot found a data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info / bond_3ad_state_machine_handler [1] which hints at lack of proper RCU implementation. Add __rcu qualifier to port->aggregator, and add proper RCU API. [1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info / bond_3ad_state_machine_handler write to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 36 on cpu 0: ad_port_selection_logic drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:1659 [inline] bond_3ad_state_machine_handler+0x9d5/0x2d60 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2569 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x4f0/0x9c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3385 worker_thread+0x58a/0x780 kernel/workqueue.c:3466 kthread+0x22a/0x280 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x146/0x330 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 read to 0xffff88813cf5c4b0 of 8 bytes by task 22063 on cpu 1: __bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2858 [inline] bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info+0x8c/0x230 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:2881 bond_fill_info+0xe0f/0x10f0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c:853 rtnl_link_info_fill net/core/rtnetlink.c:906 [inline] rtnl_link_fill+0x1d7/0x4e0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:927 rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0xf8e/0x1380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2168 rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x11c/0x1b0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4453 rtmsg_ifinfo_event net/core/rtnetlink.c:4486 [inline] rtmsg_ifinfo+0x6d/0x110 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4495 __dev_notify_flags+0x76/0x390 net/core/dev.c:9790 netif_change_flags+0xac/0xd0 net/core/dev.c:9823 do_setlink+0x905/0x2950 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3180 rtnl_group_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3813 [inline] __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3981 [inline] rtnl_newlink+0xf55/0x1400 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4109 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x64b/0x720 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6995 netlink_rcv_skb+0x123/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7022 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x5a8/0x680 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344 netlink_sendmsg+0x5c8/0x6f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0x563/0x5b0 net/socket.c:2698 ___sys_sendmsg+0x195/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2752 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline] __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xd4/0x160 net/socket.c:2787 x64_sys_call+0x194c/0x3020 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x12c/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f value changed: 0x0000000000000000 -> 0xffff88813cf5c400 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22063 Comm: syz.0.31122 Tainted: G W syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026

CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: MediumOWASP Top 10 A06:2025: Insecure Design (opens in a new tab)
The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.
Architecture and Design
In languages that support it, use synchronization primitives. Only wrap these around critical code to minimize the impact on performance.
Architecture and Design
Use thread-safe capabilities such as the data access abstraction in Spring.
Architecture and Design
Minimize the usage of shared resources in order to remove as much complexity as possible from the control flow and to reduce the likelihood of unexpected conditions occurring.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Secure Design Principles (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V1.11.2 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions (opens in a new tab)
Leveraging Race Conditions (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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