CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-31704

Vulnerability intelligence

Published May 1, 2026Sources checked Nov 14, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-31704 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.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: May 19, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

6.6.137.1-2

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-2026-31704?

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

ksmbd: use check_add_overflow() to prevent u16 DACL size overflow

set_posix_acl_entries_dacl() and set_ntacl_dacl() accumulate ACE sizes in u16 variables. When a file has many POSIX ACL entries, the accumulated size can wrap past 65535, causing the pointer arithmetic (char *)pndace + *size to land within already-written ACEs.

Subsequent writes then overwrite earlier entries, and pndacl->size gets a truncated value.

Use check_add_overflow() at each accumulation point to detect the wrap before it corrupts the buffer, consistent with existing check_mul_overflow() usage elsewhere in smbacl.c.

Source: NVD