# CVE-2026-23268: apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management CVE-2026-23268 is fixed in 34 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23268, released March 18, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High. - Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23268 - Priority: High - CVSS: 7.8 (Important) - EPSS: 0.0015 - CISA KEV: not listed - Exploited (vendor report): no - Publicly disclosed: no - Published: Mar 18, 2026 - Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23268 ## Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management An unprivileged local user can load, replace, and remove profiles by opening the apparmorfs interfaces, via a confused deputy attack, by passing the opened fd to a privileged process, and getting the privileged process to write to the interface. This does require a privileged target that can be manipulated to do the write for the unprivileged process, but once such access is achieved full policy management is possible and all the possible implications that implies: removing confinement, DoS of system or target applications by denying all execution, by-passing the unprivileged user namespace restriction, to exploiting kernel bugs for a local privilege escalation. The policy management interface can not have its permissions simply changed from 0666 to 0600 because non-root processes need to be able to load policy to different policy namespaces. Instead ensure the task writing the interface has privileges that are a subset of the task that opened the interface. This is already done via policy for confined processes, but unconfined can delegate access to the opened fd, by-passing the usual policy check. ## Where it's fixed | Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released | |---|---|---|---|---| | Linux | dtb-aarch64 opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-64kb opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-64kb sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-azure sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-debug opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.112.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default-base opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1.150600.12.42.2 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default-base sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.112.1.150600.12.52.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default-base sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1.150600.12.42.2 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-default-base sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1.150700.17.33.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-docs opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-docs sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.112.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-docs sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-docs sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-kvmsmall opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_10 sles 15.6 | 16-150600.2.2 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1613-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1613-1.md) | Apr 24, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_12 sles 15.6 | 15-150600.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1463-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1463-1.md) | Apr 20, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_13 sles 15.6 | 13-150600.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1505-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1505-1.md) | Apr 20, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_16 sles 15.6 | 6-150600.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1513-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1513-1.md) | Apr 21, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_17 sles 15.6 | 4-150600.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1583-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1583-1.md) | Apr 23, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_18 sles 15.6 | 4-150600.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1527-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1527-1.md) | Apr 21, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_20 sles 15.6 | 3-150600.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1531-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1531-1.md) | Apr 21, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_21 sles 15.6 | 1-150600.13.5.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_26 sles 15.6 | 1-150600.13.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_10 sles 15.7 | 1-150700.1.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:0962-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-0962-1.md) | Mar 23, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_6 sles 15.7 | 5-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1447-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1447-1.md) | Apr 18, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_7 sles 15.7 | 4-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1454-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1454-1.md) | Apr 18, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_9 sles 15.7 | 3-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1444-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1444-1.md) | Apr 17, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_0 sles 15.7 | 14-150700.3.39.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1458-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1458-1.md) | Apr 19, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_1 sles 15.7 | 14-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1532-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1532-1.md) | Apr 21, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_10 sles 15.7 | 1-150700.15.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1081-1.md) | Mar 26, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_15 sles 15.7 | 1-150700.15.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_2 sles 15.7 | 13-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1456-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1456-1.md) | Apr 19, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_4 sles 15.7 | 9-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1468-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1468-1.md) | Apr 20, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_8 sles 15.7 | 4-150700.2.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1469-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1469-1.md) | Apr 20, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-obs-build opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-obs-build sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.112.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-obs-build sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-obs-build sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-obs-qa opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-source opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-source sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.112.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-source sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-source sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-syms opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-syms sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.112.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2195-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2195-1.md) | Jul 1, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-syms sles 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-syms sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-zfcpdump opensuse-leap 15.6 | 6.4.0-150600.23.92.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-1041-1.md) | Mar 25, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-zfcpdump sles 15.7 | 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:2238-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-2238-1.md) | Jun 30, 2026 | | Linux | linux Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 6.1.164-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23268](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-23268.md) | Mar 18, 2026 | | Linux | linux Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 6.12.74-2 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23268](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-23268.md) | Mar 18, 2026 | | Linux | linux Debian 14 | 6.19.6-2 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23268](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-23268.md) | Mar 18, 2026 | --- Data as of 2026-11-09T13:31:49Z UTC. 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