In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vxlan: Annotate FDB data races
The 'used' and 'updated' fields in the FDB entry structure can be
accessed concurrently by multiple threads, leading to reports such as
[1]. Can be reproduced using [2].
Suppress these reports by annotating these accesses using
READ_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().
[1]
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vxlan_xmit / vxlan_xmit
write to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 286 on cpu 0:
vxlan_xmit+0xb29/0x2380
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650
packet_xmit+0x100/0x150
packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0
__sys_sendto+0x318/0x330
__x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90
x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00
do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
read to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 287 on cpu 2:
vxlan_xmit+0xadf/0x2380
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650
packet_xmit+0x100/0x150
packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0
__sys_sendto+0x318/0x330
__x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90
x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00
do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
value changed: 0x00000000fffbac6e -> 0x00000000fffbac6f
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 287 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-01544-gb4b270f11a02 #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014
[2]
#!/bin/bash
set +H
echo whitelist > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan
echo !vxlan_xmit > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan
ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 dstport 4789 local 192.0.2.1
bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 198.51.100.1
taskset -c 0 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &
taskset -c 2 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-05). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it