CVE-2026-74475

CVE-2026-74475

Critical · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
10.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()

The neighbour hardware address n->ha can be updated asynchronously by the

neighbour subsystem, protected by n->ha_lock seqlock. Reading n->ha without

holding the seqlock loop can lead to torn reads or reading a partially updated

MAC address.

Use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit() to safely copy n->ha under

read_seqbegin()/read_seqretry() lock protection before using it.

Note that arp_reduce() and neigh_reduce() seem to have the same issue

left for future patches.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
10.0 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00454 · 38.5th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T17:17Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 12:27Z
    vxlan: use neigh_ha_snapshot() in route_shortcircuit()
    cvelistv5