CVE record · CVE-2026-19624

NetworkManager-l2tp: local privilege escalation via ipsec.conf injection

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: fedora) at 14 Sept 2026, 19:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: NetworkManager-l2tp https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp	affected 1.0.0 to before 1.0.16 semver affected 1.2.0 to before 1.2.22 semver affected 1.8.0 to before 1.8.10 semver affected 1.20.0 to before 1.20.24 semver affected 1.52.0 to before 1.52.4 semver Other versions: unaffected
Fedora	Fedora Package name: NetworkManager-l2tp https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=NetworkManager-l2tp	affected 1.52.0 to before 1.52.4 semver Other versions: unaffected
Fedora	Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Package name: NetworkManager-l2tp https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=NetworkManager-l2tp	affected 1.20.0 to before 1.20.24 semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-19624
CNA: fedora
Weakness (CWE): CWE-88
Tags: Fedora
Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
Command injection
Published: 14 Sept 2026
Updated: 14 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (fedora)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 14 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp/commit/95b6b46f48a0c9eabc79272cd313f219110ef91c patch
github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp/commit/3704d8c9d5e5f9ed1626a8ce7627a04247cea673 patch
github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp/releases release-notes
bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=NetworkManager-l2tp vendor-advisory
linnemanlabs.com/posts/nm-l2tp-newline-to-root/ third-party-advisory

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