CVE-2026-53220CWE-476

CVE-2026-53220

Medium · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: revalidate bridge ports

ebt_redirect_tg() dereferences br_port_get_rcu() return without a

NULL check, causing a kernel panic when the bridge port has been

removed between the original hook invocation and an NFQUEUE

reinject.

A mere NULL check isn't sufficient, however. As sashiko review

points out userspace can not only remove the port from the bridge,

it could also place the device in a different virtual device, e.g.

macvlan.

If this happens, we must drop the packet, there is no way for us to

reinject it into the bridge path.

Switch to _upper API, we don't need the bridge port structure.

Also, this fix keeps another bug intact:

Both nfnetlink_log and nfnetlink_queue use CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER

too aggressive, which prevents certain logging features when queueing

in bridge family: NETFILTER_FAMILY_BRIDGE can be enabled while the old

CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER cruft is off.

Fixes tag is a common ancestor, this was always broken.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00122 · 1.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-06-25T13:16Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.36, < 6.12.946.12.94
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.366.18.36
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.137.0.13
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References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 08:39Z
    netfilter: revalidate bridge ports
    cvelistv5