CVE-2026-64298

NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC

POSIX requires write permission to truncate a file, so an open() that specifies O_TRUNC must be authorized for write access regardless of the O_ACCMODE access mode.

nfs_open_permission_mask() builds the access mask passed to nfs_may_open(), which is the local authorization gate for OPENs the client serves itself from a cached write delegation via the can_open_delegated() path in nfs4_try_open_cached(). The mask is derived from O_ACCMODE alone, so an open(O_RDONLY | O_TRUNC) against a file the caller cannot write requests only MAY_READ and passes the local check. The OPEN is then satisfied locally and the truncation is issued to the server as a SETATTR(size=0) over the delegation stateid, which the server accepts under standard write-delegation semantics. POSIX requires that this open fail with EACCES.

Include MAY_WRITE in the mask whenever O_TRUNC is set so the local check matches the access the server would have enforced.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before 4817c8974315b666e895b7d1bb83cd3664c323b1Affected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before cb148a2762d644bff1894728e8835a9a4b84f9eaAffected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before 30fdf4df6c3c00efec947e4ddf97f0fdd4473628Affected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before 22c1fd1355ad4ca27aa7f0fa02719122dd92d9deAffected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before 6bd7d0a06b53c4e797e1a9cea0d2d41aa1b26230Affected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before a937e92c1d00534b5c2e3e9f4381b7e988180797Affected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before e36501b7d4abdcd6d69a7cb901b2f286b7a3d041Affected
  • af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to before 5140f099ecd8a2f2808b7f7b720ee1bad8468974Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.24Affected
  • before 2.6.24Not affected
  • 5.10.261 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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