CVE-2026-53003
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pppoe: drop PFC frames
RFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT RECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating PFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an uncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer function ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still accepts PFC frames.
If a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with a compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is shifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte misaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some architectures.
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To reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both ppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.72%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 52
- Fecha de la puntuación: 3/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access75 % - Impacto principal
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact80 %
Vulnerabilidad remota sin autenticación (AV:N/PR:N/UI:N) en controlador PPPoE del kernel Linux que permite DoS mediante frames malformados que causan excepciones de acceso desalineado.
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cab5d077dd1efd2bd1a47271acc35894f945b4f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b5c3c040d020e3ab3b9a8887031202d96843b1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49e41b60ccd1bdbe9e218420f716dd5f9a2f9c71
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a5e840babc5c0fbd10c73728a13192347771ec6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba758fdf1399f310b30098b6faa3fd043de47dd2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb3beef35ab5e0c1afca9fd7648c6ae499786377
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc1ff87bce1ccd38410ab10960f576dcd17db679
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcca1df05322bb04e344dd1178b54b76a08eb7c3
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