GHSA-7q5m-qv9w-c8xx · Severity: medium — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: revalidate bridge...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: revalidate bridge ports ebt_redirect_tg() dereferences br_port_get_rcu() return without a NULL check, causing a kernel panic when the bridge port has been removed between the original hook invocation and an NFQUEUE reinject. A mere NULL check isn't sufficient, however. As sashiko review points out userspace can not only remove the port from the bridge, it could also place the device in a different virtual device, e.g. macvlan. If this happens, we must drop the packet, there is no way for us to reinject it into the bridge path. Switch to _upper API, we don't need the bridge port structure. Also, this fix keeps another bug intact: Both nfnetlink_log and nfnetlink_queue use CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER too aggressive, which prevents certain logging features when queueing in bridge family: NETFILTER_FAMILY_BRIDGE can be enabled while the old CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER cruft is off. Fixes tag is a common ancestor, this was always broken.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-53220 is rated Low Risk (22.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.13%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-07-03 | 0.18% | 0.13% | -0.05% |
| 2 | 2026-06-25 | — | 0.18% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
GHSA-7q5m-qv9w-c8xx · Severity: medium — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: revalidate bridge...
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2026-53220 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-2026-53220 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53220 |
suse
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medium | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53220/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2026-53220 medium priority: Ubuntu including 162 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1458 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1051, ignored 176, needed 143, released 88. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-53220 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 2.6.36, < 6.12.94 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.13, < 6.18.36 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.19, < 7.0.13 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* |