CVE-2026-43359

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-05-08. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow

If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did some metadata updates before.

This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume.

Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem semaphore in exclusive (write) mode.

A test case for fstests will follow soon.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS
2.4%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 8, 2026

Last Modified

May 15, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated May 15, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be
generic

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174
generic

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e
generic

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac
generic

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d
generic

btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-43359(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
linuxKernel @ 6.1.167—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-43359?
CVE-2026-43359 is a medium vulnerability published on May 8, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFSUUIDKEYRECEIVEDSUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did…
When was CVE-2026-43359 disclosed?
CVE-2026-43359 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 8, 2026, with the most recent update on May 15, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-43359 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-43359 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.4% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-43359?
CVE-2026-43359 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-43359?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-43359, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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