nvme-apple: Prevent shared tags across queues on Apple A11
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-apple: Prevent shared tags across queues on Apple A11 On Apple A11, tags of pending commands must be unique across the admin and IO queues, else the firmware crashes with "duplicate tag error for tag N", with N being the tag. Apply the existing workaround for M1 of reserving two tags for the admin queue to A11.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.111
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72131
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ccmv-h994-rmq2
- 2026-10-03 Fix available: Linux/Linux@0dbec5e5b95ef57279433b285df7dd074085e7a0, Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-03 2 new references · CNA
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dbec5e5b95ef57279433b285df7dd074085e7a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad1be9fe255b4affcba6336ccb9145d3e6f06680
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4baeb1747775d23a0c9d6e9f49e3d9417e3b6d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59cef6abc924a84824b0c3f563a7fe74cd5fc7a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7d9aaedf024bb6c0bb6a205848861d888eb1afa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe0687245e8406bf26143bd45eb16441bbe5280
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Sources
- CVE-2026-72131 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72131 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-ccmv-h994-rmq2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-72131 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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