CVE-2026-64298 PUBLISHED

NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

NFSv4: include MAY_WRITE in open permission mask for O_TRUNC

POSIX requires write permission to truncate a file, so an open() that specifies O_TRUNC must be authorized for write access regardless of the O_ACCMODE access mode.

nfs_open_permission_mask() builds the access mask passed to nfs_may_open(), which is the local authorization gate for OPENs the client serves itself from a cached write delegation via the can_open_delegated() path in nfs4_try_open_cached(). The mask is derived from O_ACCMODE alone, so an open(O_RDONLY | O_TRUNC) against a file the caller cannot write requests only MAY_READ and passes the local check. The OPEN is then satisfied locally and the truncation is issued to the server as a SETATTR(size=0) over the delegation stateid, which the server accepts under standard write-delegation semantics. POSIX requires that this open fail with EACCES.

Include MAY_WRITE in the mask whenever O_TRUNC is set so the local check matches the access the server would have enforced.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to 4817c8974315b666e895b7d1bb83cd3664c323b1 (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to cb148a2762d644bff1894728e8835a9a4b84f9ea (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to 30fdf4df6c3c00efec947e4ddf97f0fdd4473628 (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to 22c1fd1355ad4ca27aa7f0fa02719122dd92d9de (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to 6bd7d0a06b53c4e797e1a9cea0d2d41aa1b26230 (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to a937e92c1d00534b5c2e3e9f4381b7e988180797 (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to e36501b7d4abdcd6d69a7cb901b2f286b7a3d041 (excl.)
  • affected from af22f94ae02ab9dd4fd7fe628c8434a59cc293be to 5140f099ecd8a2f2808b7f7b720ee1bad8468974 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.24 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.24 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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