Linux Kernel up to 7.2.5 Ptrace privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel up to 7.2.5. This affects an unknown part of the component Ptrace. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-90347. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel up to 7.2.5. This affects some unknown processing of the component Ptrace. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: ptrace: Keep 'orig_x0' in-sync with x0 on syscall entry Commit e057b9477232 ("arm64: syscall: Ensure saved x0 is kept in-sync with tracer updates") attempted to resolve a long-standing issue with syscall entry tracing, where a tracer is able to manipulate the first syscall argument without being subjected to seccomp or audit checking. Unfortunately, that fix was incomplete [1], as it failed to update 'orig_x0' between a tracer updating x0 during a seccomp ptrace exit (SECCOMP_RET_TRACE) and the seccomp filter being re-evaluated. Rather than add hooks to the core seccomp code, instead move the synchronisation code into the ptrace GPR and syscall setting code so that 'orig_x0' is kept up to date with x0 whenever we're stopped on the syscall entry path.

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-90347 since 09/11/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/17/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 7.2.6 or 7.3-rc1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f433869f23841a50455c4087d85540d5b4d37cde/88b839ce497ccb1ff92f7ae742c78dd2937ba572 is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 7.2.0
• 7.2.1
• 7.2.2
• 7.2.3
• 7.2.4
• 7.2.5

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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