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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-46101 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise Reject zero shift operands for nft_bitwise left and right shift expressions during initialization. The carry propagation logic computes the carry from the adjacent 3

[NVD] CVE-2026-46101 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise Reject zero shift operands for nft_bitwise left and right shift expressions during initialization. The carry propagation logic computes the carry from the adjacent 3

lownvdPublished 2026-05-27

CVE-2026-46101 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-05-27T14:17:32.147

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

netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise

Reject zero shift operands for nft_bitwise left and right shift expressions during initialization.

The carry propagation logic computes the carry from the adjacent 32-bit word using BITS_PER_TYPE(u32) - shift. A zero

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46101