MEDIUMVulnerability

CVE-2026-64185

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files() fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on the group directory. In the update path, kn was obtained via kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed before this call. Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the caller did not create. Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves. On update failure the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry.

Properties

severity
MEDIUM
score
5.5
epss_score
0.00168
cve_id
CVE-2026-64185
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
published_at
2026-07-19T16:18:00.917
last_modified
2026-08-11T20:04:07.203
epss_percentile
0.06454

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