GHSA-f7w2-rj2f-73q3 · Severity: unknown — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation authencesn requires either a zero authsize or an authsize of at least 4 bytes because the ESN encrypt/decrypt paths always move 4 bytes of high-order sequence number data at the end of the authenticated data. While crypto_authenc_esn_setauthsize() already rejects explicit non-zero authsizes in the range 1..3, crypto_authenc_esn_create() still copied auth->digestsize into inst->alg.maxauthsize without validating it. The AEAD core then initialized the tfm's default authsize from that value. As a result, selecting an ahash with digest size 1..3, such as cbcmac(cipher_null), exposed authencesn instances whose default authsize was invalid even though setauthsize() would have rejected the same value. AF_ALG could then trigger the ESN tail handling with a too-short tag and hit an out-of-bounds access. Reject authencesn instances whose ahash digest size is in the invalid non-zero range 1..3 so that no tfm can inherit an unsupported default authsize.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-46033 is rated Low Risk (5.2/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.
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| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-05-28 | — | 0.02% | — |
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GHSA-f7w2-rj2f-73q3 · Severity: unknown — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject...
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debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2026-46033 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46033 |
redhat
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high | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46033 |
suse
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— | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46033/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2026-46033 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1422 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1024, ignored 170, needed 131, released 84, not-affected 7, pending 6. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46033 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
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| No affected products in dataset. | |||