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CVE-2026-53362 Unmapped
Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Linux — Kernel
- Description (CISA)
- Linux Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that can allow for privilege escalation via IPv6 networking subsystem. This vulnerability can impact multiple products, including but not limited to Suse, Red Hat, and other products using Linux.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-08-27 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
- Due date
- 2026-08-30
- Required action
- Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- none recorded by CISA
- CISA notes
- This vulnerability affects an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14200d435af9a9eeb444f529fc2f689a236b7962
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65fb14cbebb0cd0eff903a22d33537ddc8b95769
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46f201f8b4c39633a1fa3dc12459f506d470993d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6374fb9edf72c67a118a2c214a0dddd04c921e0a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9eacf19281ea2498b36291b56c9606118c2d74e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/736b380e28d0480c7bc3e022f1950f31fe53a7c5
BOD 26-04: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
Forensics Triage Requirements: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53362 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2026-53362. This entry was added to KEV on 2026-08-27, after that snapshot; of the 294 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE — here is why — and does not guess.
This page will change state automatically if a mapping is published. What is shown above is everything CISA publishes about the entry.