CVE-2026-31694

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-01. the CNA's CVSS baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cna:linux, epss, ghsa
Elevated
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Elevated riskExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.

As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes into the following kernel page.

Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into the readdir cache.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8(medium)
EG Risk
56(Track)
EG Risk 56/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
20%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 1, 2026

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated May 3, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d23ad78bfd205eac26766e38ba7d79f279131098
generic

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7de93abfaae1b2dc94da8a07a36421bd073f1d8f
generic

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed
generic

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/474ce83c96a55f2eeb14dee2be375eeadfdacdf5
generic

fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45c05af36311624c1148123caeb011312495d86b

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-31694(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
linuxKernel @ 6.18.25osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.0.1-1~exp1 (129 versions)7.0.3-1

Additional Vendor Advisories

(24)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 73× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 262 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-04 00:59 UTCOSV refresh
  3. 2026-09-02 14:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescore
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  21. 2026-08-17 13:45 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-17 13:45 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-08-17 13:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-08-16 05:19 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-08-16 05:19 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-08-16 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-14 15:26 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-08-14 15:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-14 03:47 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-14 03:47 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-08-14 03:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-13 06:43 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-08-13 06:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-12 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-12 17:25 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-08-12 17:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-11 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-08-11 16:23 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-08-11 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-11 01:49 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-08-11 01:49 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-08-11 01:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-10 13:59 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-08-10 13:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-08-10 02:15 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-08-10 02:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-08-09 14:37 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-08-09 14:37 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-08-09 14:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  32. 2026-08-09 02:58 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-08-09 02:58 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-08-09 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  36. 2026-08-08 13:41 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-08-08 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-08-08 01:53 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-08-08 01:53 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-08-08 01:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-08-07 14:15 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-08-07 14:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-08-07 02:35 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-07 02:35 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-08-07 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  47. 2026-08-06 11:53 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-08-06 11:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-08-06 00:14 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-08-06 00:14 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-08-06 00:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  53. 2026-08-05 12:36 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-05 12:36 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-08-05 12:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-08-04 15:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-08-04 10:38 UTCEPSS rescore
  58. 2026-08-03 20:25 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-03 20:25 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-03 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-08-03 10:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  62. 2026-08-02 17:20 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-08-02 17:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-08-02 05:41 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-08-02 05:41 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-08-02 05:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-08-02 02:27 UTCEPSS rescore
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoC0xCyberstan/CVE-2026-31694-POC
    First seen Jun 30, 2026

    Linux kernel FUSE readdir cache out-of-bounds write (CVE-2026-31694): a malicious FUSE server overflows a page-cache page by 24 bytes. PoC plus an unprivileged local-root exploit via /etc/passwd page-cache corruption. Run only inside a VM.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-31694?
CVE-2026-31694 is a high vulnerability published on May 1, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache fuseadddirenttocache() computes a serialized dirent size from the server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single page-cache page. The existing logic only checks…
When was CVE-2026-31694 disclosed?
CVE-2026-31694 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 1, 2026, with the most recent update on August 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-31694 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-31694 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 79.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-31694?
CVE-2026-31694 has a CVSS v4.0 base score of 7.8 (CNA self-assessment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-31694?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-31694, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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