HighCVE-2026-46070

    Linux Kernel: Out-of-Bounds Read (CVE-2026-46070)

    Published Last modified Sources: SUSE, Debian LTS, Ubuntu, Siemens ProductCERT, BSI, Msrc Update Guide, EUVD, CVE.org

    What is affected, what to do

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata r5c_recovery_analyze_meta_block() and r5l_recovery_verify_data_checksum_for_mb() iterate over payloads in a journal metadata block using on-disk payload size fields without validating them against the remaining space in the metadata block. A corrupted journal contains payload sizes extending beyond the PAGE_SIZE boundary can cause out-of-bounds reads when accessing payload fields or computing offsets.

    Update Linux Kernel to version 5.10.258, Linux Kernel to version 5.15.209, Linux Kernel to version 6.1.175.

    Affected
    • Linux Kernel lt 4.10..5.10.258
    • Linux Kernel lt 5.11..5.15.209
    • Linux Kernel lt 5.16..6.1.175
    • Linux Kernel lt 6.2..6.6.140
    • Linux Kernel lt 6.7..6.12.86
    • Linux Kernel lt 6.13..6.18.27
    • Linux Kernel lt 6.19..7.0.4
    Fixed in
    • Linux Kernel 5.10.258
    • Linux Kernel 5.15.209
    • Linux Kernel 6.1.175
    • Linux Kernel 6.6.140
    • Linux Kernel 6.12.86
    • Linux Kernel 6.18.27
    • Linux Kernel 7.0.4
    • Linux Kernel 7.1

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    Metrics

    7.1

    Priority

    XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.

    Source: Vendor (CNA), CVSS v3

    7.1

    CVSS v3

    Severity High on the scale from 0 to 10.

    Source: SUSE, Debian LTS, Ubuntu, Siemens ProductCERT, BSI, Msrc Update Guide, EUVD, CVE.org

    0.1 %

    EPSS score

    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.

    Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 2.5

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    Severity
    High
    Priority (0–325)

    The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?

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    53.56 Methodology
    Exploit maturity

    An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.

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    no public PoC known
    XIEM Effective CVSS

    XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.

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    7.1 Methodology
    CVSS v3

    CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.

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    7.1
    EPSS score

    The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.

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    0.1 %
    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
    EPSS percentile

    The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.

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    2.5
    Low — this CVE sits in the lower 10% of all CVEs scored today.
    KEV status

    The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.

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    Published
    CISA assessment (SSVC)
    Exploitation: none known · not automatable · Technical impact: partial
    Source: CISA Vulnrichment, as of 16 October 2026
    CWE

    CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.

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    CWE-125

    Detection rules

    No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.

    Classification under NIS2 and CRA

    Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.

    NIS2

    NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.

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    High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
    CRA

    The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.

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    From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
    ISO/IEC 27001

    ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.

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    Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.

    Description

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata r5c_recovery_analyze_meta_block() and r5l_recovery_verify_data_checksum_for_mb() iterate over payloads in a journal metadata block using on-disk payload size fields without validating them against the remaining space in the metadata block. A corrupted journal contains payload sizes extending beyond the PAGE_SIZE boundary can cause out-of-bounds reads when accessing payload fields or computing offsets. Add bounds validation for each payload type to ensure the full payload fits within meta_size before processing.

    Source: suse_csaf, Debian LTS Advisories, Ubuntu Security Notices, siemens_advisory, BSI WID Portal, BSI CSAF, Microsoft Security Update Guide, ENISA EUVD, cvelistv5, NVD (NIST), CVE.org (MITRE)

    Affected products

    The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.

    Affected products
    Affected versionsFixed in
    LinuxLinux
    • 5.16 – < 6.1.175
    • 6.19 – < 7.0.4
    • 6.2 – < 6.6.140
    • 4.10 – < 5.10.258
    • 6.13 – < 6.18.27
    • 5.11 – < 5.15.209
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    • 6.7 – < 6.12.86
    • 6.1.175
    • 7.0.4
    • 6.6.140
    • 5.10.258
    • 6.18.27
    • 5.15.209
    • 7.1
    • 6.12.86
    SiemensSIMATIC S7
    • 1500 TM MFP V1.1.1 GNU/Linux subsystem
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    Vendors and products

    Affected operating systems

    Affected operating systems
    Linuxdebianlinuxbookworm
    Linuxdebianlinuxbullseye
    Linuxdebianlinux-6.1bullseye
    Linuxlinuxlinux_kernel—

    Weakness classes (CWE)

    • CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read

      Base

      The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

      Entry at MITRE CWE-125

    References & sources

    Changes to this CVE

    Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).

    1. Record modifiedCISA ADP

      Weakness type: CWE-125

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      CWE-125

      Source identifier: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    2. Record modifiedCISA ADP

      CISA assessment (SSVC): exploitation: none known, automatable: no

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      {"id":"CVE-2026-46070","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"exploitation":"none"},{"automatable":"no"},{"technicalImpact":"partial"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2026-10-16T15:19:24.995306Z"}

      Source identifier: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    3. Record modifiedLinux

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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28d3ff7109c66e99dc1b7cddacb5c760849620ef
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33698bd1b2db9764a29df7751533d33967ff5c98
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/406aa86394ead347c47428fb51b6359bdaa2257d
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73ce72edd113374801045924d4417199963f73a3
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0cc3ae97e893bf54bbce447f4e9fd2e0b88bff9
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a1cf78bd1bbb51b2cc5189b4743056553c1e0e
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96c6f01d84b5c67db1bf1cc8591c0b7146826fc
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef4851d8324fd978ca1ff9ec76a275438f887743
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28d3ff7109c66e99dc1b7cddacb5c760849620ef
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33698bd1b2db9764a29df7751533d33967ff5c98
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/406aa86394ead347c47428fb51b6359bdaa2257d
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73ce72edd113374801045924d4417199963f73a3
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0cc3ae97e893bf54bbce447f4e9fd2e0b88bff9
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a1cf78bd1bbb51b2cc5189b4743056553c1e0e
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28d3ff7109c66e99dc1b7cddacb5c760849620ef Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33698bd1b2db9764a29df7751533d33967ff5c98 Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/406aa86394ead347c47428fb51b6359bdaa2257d Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73ce72edd113374801045924d4417199963f73a3 Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0cc3ae97e893bf54bbce447f4e9fd2e0b88bff9 Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a1cf78bd1bbb51b2cc5189b4743056553c1e0e Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96c6f01d84b5c67db1bf1cc8591c0b7146826fc Types: Patch
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      https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef4851d8324fd978ca1ff9ec76a275438f887743 Types: Patch
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      Source identifier: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    4. Record modifiedSiemens ADP

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      New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46070.json">CVE-2026-46070</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html

      Source identifier: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e

    5. Initial analysis by NVDNVD

      Newly listed as affected:
      • Linux Kernel (6.7 – before 6.12.86; 5.16 – before 6.1.175; 5.11 – before 5.15.209; 6.2 – before 6.6.140; 4.10 – before 5.10.258; 6.13 – before 6.18.27; 6.19 – before 7.0.4)

      Weakness type: CWE-787

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      CWE-787
      Product configurationadded
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      OR *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.7 up to (excluding) 6.12.86 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.16 up to (excluding) 6.1.175 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.11 up to (excluding) 5.15.209 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.2 up to (excluding) 6.6.140 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 4.10 up to (excluding) 5.10.258 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.13 up to (excluding) 6.18.27 *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.19 up to (excluding) 7.0.4
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28d3ff7109c66e99dc1b7cddacb5c760849620ef Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33698bd1b2db9764a29df7751533d33967ff5c98 Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/406aa86394ead347c47428fb51b6359bdaa2257d Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73ce72edd113374801045924d4417199963f73a3 Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0cc3ae97e893bf54bbce447f4e9fd2e0b88bff9 Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a1cf78bd1bbb51b2cc5189b4743056553c1e0e Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96c6f01d84b5c67db1bf1cc8591c0b7146826fc Types: Patch
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      kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef4851d8324fd978ca1ff9ec76a275438f887743 Types: Patch

      Source identifier: nvd@nist.gov

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