CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-31414

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Apr 13, 2026Sources checked Oct 27, 2026

9.8CRITICALCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-31414 and is rated Critical severity with a CVSS score of 9.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 22, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - x86 architecture; - InfiniBand drivers; - Network drivers; - NVME drivers; - Ext4 file system; - SMB network file system; - IPv4 networking; - Network traffic control; - TCP network protocol; - Locking primitives; - IPv6 networking; - Multipath TCP; - Netfilter; - Open vSwitch; - SCTP protocol; - SMC sockets; (CVE-2026-31414, CVE-2026-31448, CVE-2026-31705, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43378, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-46266, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52989, CVE-2026-53086, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53212, CVE-2026-53215, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53246, CVE-2026-53359, CVE-2026-64531)

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 18, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - x86 architecture; - Cryptographic API; - InfiniBand drivers; - Media drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Network drivers; - NVME drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - OCFS2 file system; - IPv4 networking; - Network traffic control; - TCP network protocol; - Locking primitives; - B.A.T.M.A.N.

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 2, 2026

Vendor remediation details

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.6%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-31414?

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

netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: use expect->helper

Use expect->helper in ctnetlink and /proc to dump the helper name. Using nfct_help() without holding a reference to the master conntrack is unsafe.

Use exp->master->helper in ctnetlink path if userspace does not provide an explicit helper when creating an expectation to retain the existing behaviour. The ctnetlink expectation path holds the reference on the master conntrack and nf_conntrack_expect lock and the nfnetlink glue path refers to the master ct that is attached to the skb.

Source: NVD