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CVE-2026-80996: Linux 4.0
CVE-2026-80996 affects azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0. CVSS 3.1 base score 1.9 (Microsoft Security Response Center). EPSS 0.00168 (percentile 0.05491), scored 05-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b to before 0fe037d5eaad938aa3e9143ee071aa237750b42b, 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b to before 9c340473f4822bb31b151c19afd17448eda5acd1, 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b to before 50c4038f1670bf9a80c6a58ae83d1602decd8481, 33f72e6f0c67f673fd0c63a8182dbd9ffb8cf50b to before af20e269f7459d2ce69887fdf2fad7caf986c865
Linux
Linux · 4.0
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
File: net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
Attack conditions (Microsoft Security Response Center, CVSS 3.1): Local · High privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Microsoft Security Response Center’s CVSS 3.1 assessment rates confidentiality and integrity impact as none; availability impact as low. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- Product
- azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- CCR priority
- 7.6 /100 (P5)
- CVSS 3.1
- 1.9 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L · Microsoft Security Response Center
- EPSS
- 0.00168 · percentile 0.05665 · 2026-10-17
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-18 12:55:59.341568+00:00 UTC
- Microsoft MSRC Security Update Guide (CVRF) · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 07:08:49.022374+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-19 10:33:46.008150+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-80996.html