CVE-2026-80585
mediumCVSS v3 Base Score
7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 76% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: August 26, 2026 (11 days ago)
Last Modified: August 26, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: fastopen: only mark MPTFO subflows with SYN data
Passive TCP Fast Open accepts a valid-cookie SYN even when it carries
no data. In that case the child socket's receive queue is intentionally
left empty.
mptcp_fastopen_subflow_synack_set_params() set is_mptfo before checking
for queued SYN data. That made data-less TFO SYNs hit a WARN and, if
the warning was non-fatal, left stale MPTFO state behind. The stale
flag could later trigger a state-confusion bug in
check_fully_established().
Only mark the subflow as MPTFO after confirming that an SKB was queued.
Return quietly when the receive queue is empty.
Note that mptcp_subflow_context's is_mptfo field is now not just about
subflows where the TFO was present, but about MPTFO subflow that
consumed SYN data. Only having a valid cookie but not carrying data is
not really "doing TFO".
CWE
CWE-367Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9