CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-31458

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Apr 22, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-31458 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Apr 29, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

6.6.134.1-2

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-31458?

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

mm/damon/sysfs: check contexts->nr before accessing contexts_arr[0]

Multiple sysfs command paths dereference contexts_arr[0] without first verifying that kdamond->contexts->nr == 1. A user can set nr_contexts to 0 via sysfs while DAMON is running, causing NULL pointer dereferences.

In more detail, the issue can be triggered by privileged users like below.

First, start DAMON and make contexts directory empty (kdamond->contexts->nr == 0).

# damo start # cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0 # echo 0 > contexts/nr_contexts

Then, each of below commands will cause the NULL pointer dereference.

# echo update_schemes_stats > state # echo update_schemes_tried_regions > state # echo update_schemes_tried_bytes > state # echo update_schemes_effective_quotas > state # echo update_tuned_intervals > state

Guard all commands (except OFF) at the entry point of damon_sysfs_handle_cmd().

Source: NVD