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CVE-2026-46243

Improper Input Validation: Is CVE-2026-46243 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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Exploited in wild
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CISA KEV
Public exploit
PoC (unverified)
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
7.1 High
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
0.4%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
CWE

High CVSS base score, but low real-world exploitation probability (EPSS). Likely less urgent than the score implies.

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baseline read

auto · not a community verdict

Real, but low real-world risk

A genuine vulnerability on paper, but EPSS shows little real-world exploitation — the base score may overstate urgency. This is not the same as a false positive.

Based on CVSS · FIRST EPSS

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Affected:Linux

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions cifs.spnego key descriptions contain authority-bearing fields such as pid, uid, creduid, and upcall_target that cifs.upcall treats as kernel-originating inputs. However, userspace can also create keys of this type through request_key(2) or add_key(2), allowing those fields to be supplied without CIFS origin. Only accept cifs.spnego descriptions while CIFS is using its private spnego_cred to request the key.

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    Field note · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    This scores high on paper (CVSS 7.1) but the real-world signal is low. It is not in CISA KEV and no public exploit was found, and near-term exploitation looks unlikely (EPSS about 0%). Verify your own exposure before treating it as urgent. It needs local access, so it reads more as a privilege-escalation or post-access risk than a remote one. Not an emergency for most teams, but patch it in your normal cycle and check whether the affected component is actually exposed in your setup.

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Same weakness: CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation.