High severity · published Sep 11, 2026
CVE-2026-89554
mptcp: fix uninitialized local_id in syncookie MP_JOIN reconstruction
8.2
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix uninitialized local_id in syncookie MP_JOIN reconstruction mptcp_token_join_cookie_init_state() restores remote_nonce, local_nonce, backup, join_id, token and msk from the saved cookie entry when rebuilding the request socket for a MP_JOIN 4th-ACK handled under SYN cookies, but it does not restore local_id, even though the SYN path saved it. subflow_ulp_clone() then reads that uninitialized field and stores it as the joined subflow's address-ID. Because the request-sock slab is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and not zeroed on allocation, the value is the stale byte of a previously freed request socket, which an off-path peer can influence by sending concurrent MP_JOIN SYNs. This corrupts the path manager's id-based subflow bookkeeping for the connection. Restore subflow_req->local_id from the cookie entry, as done for the other fields.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 before 4534e0eead692bb069ad1e6a5a245fc2e2078300; 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 before 63cacb05e51a1c6e1349d2e593d00fd6ef43def4; 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 before 954b5ea836eb118d188975ced803448537ab8479; 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 before 9df36a4846375a9b75bf42d77bfed216b0f366f9; 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 before 64f2c5dd49b956a542c8c02b8dad5d262a462bba; 9466a1ccebbe54ac57fb8a89c2b4b854826546a8 before 51887ccd88791ddaa8755a7c614fda031ecf7982; +3 more · source: vendor