CVE-2026-43916CWE-125CWE-191

pam_authnft: Heap buffer overflow in NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG reply walker

High · published May 12, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

pam_authnft is a PAM session module binding nftables firewall rules to authenticated sessions via cgroupv2 inodes. Prior to 0.2.0-alpha, a heap buffer over-read in peer_lookup_tcp (src/peer_lookup.c:134, prior to the fix) allowed a crafted NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG reply to slip past the message-size check, then dereference past the end of the allocation. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.2.0-alpha.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00445 · 37.7th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read; CWE-191 · Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
Published
2026-05-12T13:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAY 13:31Z
    pam_authnft: Heap buffer overflow in NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG reply walker
    cvelistv5