---
id: CVE-2026-74596
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare()

  The check that fs-verity is available in the kernel is not necessary
  here
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare()

  The check that fs-verity is available in the kernel is not necessary
  here. Filesystems could …
severity: none
published: '2026-08-22'
updated: '2026-08-22'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74596'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d2b2ed7bdcc6df4942292318c5455b5e94ba525'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2f96bcb89d36d488a10e3bcf819b98536968286'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
ingestedAt: '2026-08-23T09:45:33.583Z'
epss: 0.00198
epssPercentile: 0.08484
---

## Overview

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

fs,fsverity: remove check for fsverity being enabled in setattr_prepare()

The check that fs-verity is available in the kernel is not necessary
here. Filesystems could have fsverity files even without fs-verity
enabled. In that case, truncate on fsverity file will succeed, what this
check is trying to prevent.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.