CVE-2026-90132: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: reject unprivileged writes to reserved $LX* xattrs Reject setxattr of the reserved $LXUID, $LXGID, $LXMOD and $LXDEV names from userspace unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 7.1, before 7.2.6 (fixed in 7.2.6)

Published 2026-09-17. Last modified 2026-09-18.