High severity · published Jul 19, 2026
CVE-2026-64030
wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs
8.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs
IEEE80211_MLE_STA_EPCS_CONTROL_LINK_ID is 0x000f, so link_id extracted
from a PRIO_ACCESS ML element PER_STA_PROFILE subelement can be 0..15.
sdata->link[] has IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15) entries (indices 0..14),
making index 15 out-of-bounds.
A connected WiFi 7 AP can trigger this by sending an EPCS Enable Response
action frame with a PER_STA_PROFILE subelement where link_id = 15. The
unsolicited-notification path (dialog_token = 0) is reachable any time
EPCS is already enabled, without any prior client request.
sdata->link[15] reads into the first word of sdata->activate_links_work
(a wiphy_work whose embedded list_head is non-NULL after INIT_LIST_HEAD),
so the NULL check on the result does not catch the invalid access. The
garbage pointer is then passed to ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(), which
dereferences link->sdata and crashes the kernel.
The same class of bug was fixed for ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration() by
commit 162d331d833d ("wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in
ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration").
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 15% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
6.15 before 6.18.34; 6.19 before 7.0.11; 7.1; 7.1; 7.1; 7.1 · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
de86c5f60839dc0d771711a848b4f55ad3f90844 before 2d8379834800c30602f24c71ab7c40f5fe84d200; de86c5f60839dc0d771711a848b4f55ad3f90844 before 863f1f02a3bd70dbd857b8ac4070292fde8cb4e2; de86c5f60839dc0d771711a848b4f55ad3f90844 before f718506edd2d9c6a308ded9d13c632bf7b7d5a2c; 6.15 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64030
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64030
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d8379834800c30602f24c71ab7c40f5fe84d200
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/863f1f02a3bd70dbd857b8ac4070292fde8cb4e2
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f718506edd2d9c6a308ded9d13c632bf7b7d5a2c
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