CVE-2026-90083

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EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • No CVSS published and no exploitation signals yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS v2: —Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

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

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

net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames

act_ife encapsulates/decapsulates the original Ethernet header and uses skb->dev->hard_header_len as the length of that header. That is only correct for Ethernet devices: on a device where hard_header_len does not match the L2 header that was actually pulled (PPP reports PPP_HDRLEN while nothing is stripped on ingress), the ingress skb_push()/skb_pull() use the wrong length and can hit skb_under_panic when headroom is tight.

IFE is Ethernet-only by design - it builds an outer ethhdr, rewrites h_source/h_dest/h_proto, and calls eth_type_trans() on decode - so instead of trying to make the offsets work for arbitrary link types, simply drop packets that do not carry an Ethernet header.

Checking skb->dev->type alone is not enough. We have to cater for a corner case where mirred can redirect an skb from a non-Ethernet device to an Ethernet one, and skb->dev then says nothing about the framing the skb actually has: an skb redirected from ppp0 reaches the target's ingress hook with mac_len 0 and no Ethernet header at all. So at ingress also require mac_len to be ETH_HLEN. On egress mac_len is not maintained, so the device type is all we have; a bogus redirect there yields a malformed frame rather than an out-of-bounds push, and it would be malformed with or without IFE.

That corner case is not theoretical - redirecting from ppp0 into a veth that has an ife encode action on its ingress hook panics without this patch:

skbuff: skb_under_panic: len:98 put:14 head:ffff88800e410000 data:ffff88800e40fff5 tail:0x57 end:0x640 dev:veth3 kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214! Call Trace: skb_push (net/core/skbuff.c:224 net/core/skbuff.c:2657) tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:829 net/sched/act_ife.c:874) tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463) netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6463 net/core/dev.c:6522) tcf_mirred_to_dev (net/sched/act_mirred.c:248 net/sched/act_mirred.c:328) tcf_mirred_act (net/sched/act_mirred.c:489) tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463) process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6728)

With Ethernet framing guaranteed, use ETH_HLEN instead of hard_header_len.

CVSS v3
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EchelonGraph score
Not yet assessedNo source has published severity data for this CVE yet — no CVSS score from NVD or a CNA, no GitHub advisory, and it is not in CISA KEV. This is not a rating of zero; we cannot assess it yet.
EG Score
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EG Risk
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EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
9th
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 17, 2026

Last Modified

September 17, 2026

References (3)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-90083(2)

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

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (358 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (181 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (178 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.6-1: fixed in 7.2.6-1
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 28× 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.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-02 16:29 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-02 16:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-29 16:50 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-29 16:50 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-29 16:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-09-26 16:51 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-26 16:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-23 17:13 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-23 17:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-20 17:33 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-20 17:33 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-09-20 17:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-17 17:23 UTCNVD update
  2. 2026-09-17 16:51 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-17 16:19 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-90083?
CVE-2026-90083 is a publicly disclosed vulnerability published on September 17, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames act_ife encapsulates/decapsulates the original Ethernet header and uses skb->dev->hardheaderlen as the length of that header. That is only correct for Ethernet devices: on a…
When was CVE-2026-90083 disclosed?
CVE-2026-90083 was first published on September 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-90083 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-90083 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (9th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-90083?
No fix for CVE-2026-90083 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-90083 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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