What is CVE-2026-43268?

CVE-2026-43268 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-05-06.

How severe is CVE-2026-43268?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-43268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFRE…

EPSS: 0.000 (2.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 6.1.165, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, 7.0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.12

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-43268?: CVE-2026-43268 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-05-06.
How severe is CVE-2026-43268?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.