THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-64392 (CRITICAL 9.1) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: use opener credentials for delete-on-close
Delete-on-close can be completed by deferred or durable handle teardown,
where no request work is available. Both the base-file unlink and the ADS
xattr removal
[NVD] CVE-2026-64392 (CRITICAL 9.1) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use opener credentials for delete-on-close Delete-on-close can be completed by deferred or durable handle teardown, where no request work is available. Both the base-file unlink and the ADS xattr removal
CVE-2026-64392 CVSS: 9.1 CRITICAL Published: 2026-07-25T10:17:22.557
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ksmbd: use opener credentials for delete-on-close
Delete-on-close can be completed by deferred or durable handle teardown, where no request work is available. Both the base-file unlink and the ADS xattr removal consequently run with the ksmbd worker credential
MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- CredentialsT1589.001
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-64392cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64392