---
id: CVE-2026-53168
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

  The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the
  FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecach…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

  The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the
  FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecach…
severity: medium
cvss: 5.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'
vendor: linux
product: linux_kernel
affected:
  - 'linux_kernel >= 4.20, < 5.10.259'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.210'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.176'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.143'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.94'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.36'
  - 'linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 7.0.13'
  - linux_kernel = 7.1
patched:
  - linux_kernel 7.0.13
published: '2026-06-25'
updated: '2026-10-15'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-15T02:20:03.010'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53168'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12df4cfa738aefff21756728e91056d7defb0fe6'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15487f98863dc7156ed43c5be26d478beb82ba35'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99c317d7f8b7bbf3de16d20a01f363e390114cea'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c954499d43aefac01c5dfb57a82b13d2dcf4b94'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dbf1b2fadfc6c40805631d8a8276d1639fc9ab6'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd23fa0c16c5c86e5b7713224ffbb87d9db81cca'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd92773d4d9cea010474eb08a5133c14ff6ab53a'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e692f0cb86204dcdb9dddc0b355407eda6394a67'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html'
    label: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00123
epssPercentile: 0.01838
ingestedAt: '2026-10-15T03:30:12.906Z'
---

## Overview

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

fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the
FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecache contents.

For directories with FOPEN_CACHE_DIR, the pagecache is used as
kernel-internal cache storage, and userspace is not supposed to have
direct access to this cache - in particular, fuse_parse_cache() will hit
WARN_ON() if the cache contains bogus data.

Reject FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE on anything other than
regular files with -EINVAL.

## Affected

- `linux_kernel >= 4.20, < 5.10.259`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.210`
- `linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.176`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.143`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.94`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.36`
- `linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 7.0.13`
- `linux_kernel = 7.1`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `linux_kernel 7.0.13`