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From: Abhinav Agarwal <abhinavagarwal1996 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:37:52 -0700
Following up with a detailed writeup covering root cause analysis,
exploitation surface, and proof of concept for both CVEs:
https://abhinavagarwal07.github.io/posts/ringwraith/
Key points beyond the original advisory:
- The UAF (CVE-2026-33150) is triggered by pthread_create failure or
io_uring_queue_init_params failure, not by the CVE-2026-33179 sub-bugs
- Container resource limits (cgroup pids.max, RLIMIT_NPROC) reliably
cause pthread_create failure in the io_uring startup path
- CVE-2026-33179 has two independent sub-bugs: NULL deref on
numa_alloc_local failure, and error-swallowed-as-success causing a
filesystem hang; neither chains into the UAF in the shipped code
Regards,
Abhinav Agarwal
On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 6:24 PM Abhinav Agarwal
<abhinavagarwal1996 () gmail com> wrote:
Two memory safety vulnerabilities in libfuse's io_uring code path
(introduced in 3.18.0) have been fixed in libfuse 3.18.2. Only the
io_uring transport is affected; the traditional /dev/fuse path is not.
Affected versions: libfuse >= 3.18.0, < 3.18.2
Fixed in: libfuse 3.18.2
https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/tag/fuse-3.18.2
CVE-2026-33150: Use-After-Free
Severity: High (CVSS 7.8)
CWE: CWE-416
Use-after-free in io_uring session shutdown path. A local user can
crash the FUSE daemon or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Advisory: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/security/advisories/GHSA-qxv7-xrc2-qmfx
Fix: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/commit/49fcd891a58f622c098e2ca67d66086f7b213836
Credit: Abhinav Agarwal (reporter)
Remediation review: Akshat Sinha
CVE-2026-33179: NULL Pointer Dereference + Memory Leak
Severity: Moderate (CVSS 5.5)
CWE: CWE-476
Missing NULL checks and error-path cleanup in io_uring queue
initialization can crash the FUSE daemon on allocation failure
and leak NUMA memory.
Advisory: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/security/advisories/GHSA-x669-v3mq-r358
Fix: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/commit/7beb86c09b6ec5aab14dc25256ed8a5ad18554d7
Credit: Abhinav Agarwal (reporter)
Remediation review: Akshat Sinha
Both issues were reported privately to the libfuse maintainer
and fixed in a coordinated release.
Timeline:
2026-03-16 first issue reported libfuse maintainer
2026-03-17 second issue reported libfuse maintainer
2026-03-18 Release 3.18.2 with fixes
2026-03-19 GHSA advisories published
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