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Linux aws: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel… (CVE-2026-63829)

0
Medium
Published: 07/19/2026 (07/19/2026, 12:16:00 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Product: linux-aws

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net. Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper. Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t->collect_md before ip_tunnel_changelink() runs. Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

CVSS v3.1

Score 8.8high

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Osv Id
GHSA-6wc5-2mjj-pmr6
Osv Schema Version
1.4.0
Aliases
["CVE-2026-63829"]
Ecosystems
[]
Database Specific Severity
null
Cvss Version
3.1

Threat ID: 6a5d27ad2a4a8d598913157f

Added to database: 07/19/2026, 19:38:21 UTC

Last enriched: 08/15/2026, 03:28:43 UTC

Last updated: 09/03/2026, 10:52:10 UTC

Views: 53

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