CVE-2026-23405 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux
Severity
7.2HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateApr 19
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces
Currently the number of policy namespaces is not bounded relying on
the user namespace limit. However policy namespaces aren't strictly
tied to user namespaces and it is possible to create them and nest
them arbitrarily deep which can be used to exhaust system resource.
Hard cap policy namespaces to the same depth as user namespaces.
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 — 3f8699b3ee0c04b4b9bc27b82cd89a40e81e1d2e+5
🔴Vulnerability Details
4VulDB▶
Linux Kernel up to 7.0-rc3 apparmor privilege escalation (EUVD-2026-17833 / WID-SEC-2026-0950)↗2026-04-19
GHSA▶
GHSA-xwx5-hj9g-f35h: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces
Currently the num↗2026-04-01
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23405: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces Currently the numbe↗2026-04-01