# CVE-2026-68149: fs: preserve ACL\_DONT\_CACHE state in forget\_cached\_acl()

- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42, 7.1.6
- Published: 2026-08-10 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6, fixed in b98fad81f1202b0eb26aacf3ff4cc7a21ed3b5bf; from facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6, fixed in 834ddf899484a2f23129080e8773bc04f4691d07; from facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6, fixed in a019b074903b3ad0a9726087efd0e8291452023b; from facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6, fixed in ca03a7984a34f48085fd013e0d2cf4e6420b4acf; from facd61053cff100973921d4d45d47cf53c747ec6, fixed in 4b9a5458d02e214ef2b384124ca626e3e381d778
- Linux: 6.2
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.2.0, fixed in 6.6.148; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.101; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.42; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.1.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: preserve ACL_DONT_CACHE state in forget_cached_acl() The ACL_DONT_CACHE state is meant to be a constant state for the inode for filesystems that want to opt out of posix acl caching. Commit facd61053cff1 ("fuse: fixes after adapting to new posix acl api") used this facility to opt out of posix acl caching for fuse inodes with fuse server that does not negotiate FUSE_POSIX_ACL (fc->posix_acl). The commit also takes care to gate the forget_all_cached_acls() call in fuse_set_acl() on fc->posix_acl because there is no need for it, but there are other placed in fuse code which call forget_all_cached_acls() unconditional to fc->posix_acl and those cause the loss of the ACL_DONT_CACHE state. This is not only a functional bug. Properly timed, a get_acl() from this fuse filesystem can return a stale cached value, as was observed in tests, because set_acl() does not invalidate the unintentional acl cache. We could fix this in fuse, but it actually makes no sense for the vfs helper forget_cached_acl() to invalidate the ACL_DONT_CACHE state, so let it not do that to fix fuse and future users of ACL_DONT_CACHE.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42, 7.1.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b98fad81f1202b0eb26aacf3ff4cc7a21ed3b5bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/834ddf899484a2f23129080e8773bc04f4691d07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a019b074903b3ad0a9726087efd0e8291452023b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca03a7984a34f48085fd013e0d2cf4e6420b4acf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b9a5458d02e214ef2b384124ca626e3e381d778

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