{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2026-08-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: nvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers",
    "id" : "2516448",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516448"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "8.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-787",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnvmet-auth: reject short AUTH_RECEIVE buffers\nnvmet_execute_auth_receive() trusts the AUTH_RECEIVE allocation length\nafter checking only that it is nonzero and matches the transfer length.\nIn the SUCCESS1 and FAILURE1/default states, that lets a remote NVMe-oF\ninitiator reach the fixed-size DH-HMAC-CHAP response builders with a\nkmalloc() buffer shorter than the response, so nvmet_auth_success1() and\nnvmet_auth_failure1() write past the allocation; both only WARN_ON the\nshort length and then format the message anyway.\nImpact: A remote NVMe-oF initiator with access to an auth-enabled target\ncan trigger a 16-byte heap out-of-bounds write via a one-byte\nAUTH_RECEIVE allocation length.\nCompute the minimum response length for the current DH-HMAC-CHAP step in\nnvmet_auth_receive_data_len() and report a zero data length when the\nhost-supplied allocation length is shorter, so the existing zero-length\ncheck in nvmet_execute_auth_receive() rejects the command before any\nbuilder runs. The SUCCESS1 minimum is sizeof(struct\nnvmf_auth_dhchap_success1_data) plus the HMAC hash length, because the\nresponse hash is written into the rval[] flexible-array tail, so the\nminimum is state dependent rather than a flat sizeof. CHALLENGE keeps its\nexisting variable-length guard in nvmet_auth_challenge().\nThis is reachable only when in-band DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication is\nconfigured on the target.", "A flaw was found in the `nvmet-auth` component of the Linux kernel. A remote attacker, by sending a specially crafted `AUTH_RECEIVE` buffer to an NVMe-oF (NVM Express over Fabrics) target with in-band authentication enabled, can trigger a heap out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability arises because the system incorrectly processes the provided buffer length, leading to memory corruption. This can result in a denial of service or other unpredictable system behavior." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:61887",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:6.12.0-211.50.1.el10_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:63129",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-09-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:63129",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-687.44.1.el9_8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72130\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72130\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081530-CVE-2026-72130-63b4@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-72130",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, ensure that in-band DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication is not configured on NVMe-oF targets if it is not strictly required. This vulnerability is only exploitable when this specific authentication mechanism is enabled. Consult NVMe-oF documentation for your specific setup to disable DH-HMAC-CHAP authentication if it is currently enabled and not required.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}