CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-109518

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Nov 4, 2026Sources checked Nov 6, 2026

7.7HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-109518 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.7. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Nov 6, 2026

Updated APT packages are available from Canonical (USN-8996-1) and Debian (DSA-6607-1).

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.9%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-109518?

On Debian, Ubuntu, and derivative Linux distributions, an on-path attacker who can manipulate the HTTP traffic (including a malicious mirror or proxy) between an APT client and an archive server triggered by a package install can trick the client into installing an attacker-controlled unverified package and achieve remote code execution with root privileges.

The vulnerability is caused by the reuse of hard links and requires the client to follow redirects and retry the download of package files. It requires the client to have a non-zero Acquire::Retries configuration setting; the value 3 is the default starting with Debian 12 (bookworm) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), so older releases are unaffected in a default configuration

Source: NVD