CVE-2026-43500

HIGHNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicts 93% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (top 0.2% of all CVEs). the CNA's CVSS baseline 7.8 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). Confidence: see factors.

Triggered by: EPSS exploit prediction ≥85%
Sources: cna:linux, epss, ghsa
Weaponized
7.8
EchelonGraph verdictPatch this weekExploitation is likely or a public exploit exists.
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 93%
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 93%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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

rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present

The DATA-packet handler in rxrpc_input_call_event() and the RESPONSE handler in rxrpc_verify_response() copy the skb to a linear one before calling into the security ops only when skb_cloned() is true. An skb that is not cloned but still carries externally-owned paged fragments (e.g. SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set by splice() into a UDP socket via __ip_append_data, or a chained skb_has_frag_list()) falls through to the in-place decryption path, which binds the frag pages directly into the AEAD/skcipher SGL via skb_to_sgvec().

Extend the gate to also unshare when skb_has_frag_list() or skb_has_shared_frag() is true. This catches the splice-loopback vector and other externally-shared frag sources while preserving the zero-copy fast path for skbs whose frags are kernel-private (e.g. NIC page_pool RX, GRO). The OOM/trace handling already in place is reused.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0(high)
EPSS
99.8%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 11, 2026

Last Modified

July 15, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated May 11, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d45179f8795222ce858770dc619abe51f9d24411
generic

rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa54b1d27fe0c2b78e664a34fd0fdf7cd1960d71
generic

rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eae0f4f9f7206a4801efa5e0235c25bbd5a412c

Patch Availability(16)

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(2)

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

All Vendor Advisories

(15)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 2× in last 7d / 18× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 115 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-16 09:53 UTCOSV refresh
  3. 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-06-28 08:53 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-06-28 08:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-06-28 03:26 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-06-28 03:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-06-27 14:22 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-06-27 14:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-06-27 10:06 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-06-27 10:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-06-26 21:09 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-06-26 21:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-06-26 05:19 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-06-26 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-06-23 21:33 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-06-19 19:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-06-17 05:37 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-06-17 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-06-17 01:07 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-06-17 01:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-06-16 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-06-16 12:01 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-06-16 12:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-06-16 07:34 UTCEG score recompute 1.20
  3. 2026-06-16 07:34 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-06-16 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-06-15 17:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-06-15 04:06 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-06-15 04:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-06-14 15:06 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-06-14 15:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-06-14 02:07 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-06-14 02:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-06-13 23:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-06-13 08:30 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-06-13 08:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-06-12 23:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-06-12 23:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-06-12 18:26 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-06-12 18:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-06-12 03:38 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-06-12 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-06-11 14:40 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-06-11 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-06-11 14:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-06-11 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-06-11 01:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-06-10 22:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-06-10 13:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  28. 2026-06-10 13:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-06-10 12:42 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-06-10 12:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-06-09 23:44 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-06-09 23:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-06-09 10:45 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-06-09 10:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-06-08 21:47 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-06-08 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-06-08 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-06-08 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  39. 2026-06-08 08:03 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-06-08 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-06-07 19:04 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-06-07 19:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-06-07 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-06-07 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  45. 2026-06-07 06:05 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-06-07 06:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-06-06 17:06 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-06-06 17:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-06-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  50. 2026-06-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-06-06 04:04 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-06-06 04:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-06-05 22:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  54. 2026-06-05 15:05 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-06-05 15:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-06-05 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-06-05 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  58. 2026-06-05 02:06 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-06-05 02:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-06-04 13:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-06-04 13:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  62. 2026-06-04 13:07 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-06-04 13:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-06-04 00:08 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-06-04 00:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-06-03 11:08 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-06-03 11:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-06-02 22:08 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-06-02 22:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-06-02 20:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  71. 2026-06-02 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-06-01 20:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-06-01 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-05-31 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  75. 2026-05-31 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (2 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-52591
    First seen May 29, 2026

    Linux Kernel - Local Privilege Escalation

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-52585
    First seen May 27, 2026

    Linux Kernel - Local Privilege Escalation

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/linux/local/cve_2026_43500_dirty_frag✓ verified
    First seen May 8, 2026

    rxkad Page-Cache Write via CVE-2026-43500

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-43500?
CVE-2026-43500 is a high vulnerability published on May 11, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present The DATA-packet handler in rxrpcinputcall_event() and the RESPONSE handler in rxrpcverifyresponse() copy the skb to a linear one before calling into the…
When was CVE-2026-43500 disclosed?
CVE-2026-43500 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 11, 2026, with the most recent update on July 15, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-43500 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-43500 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 99.8% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-43500?
CVE-2026-43500 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-43500?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-43500, 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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