Vulnerability · Published Jun 4, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2026-50292

High 7.4

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in libinput from freedesktop. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In libinput before 1.30.4 and 1.31.x before 1.31.3, libinput-device-group unescaped phys output can inject udev properties leading to arbitrary root code execution

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:10libinput1.30.1-2.el10_2ALSA-2026:39296
AlmaLinux:10libinput-devel1.30.1-2.el10_2ALSA-2026:39296
AlmaLinux:10libinput-utils1.30.1-2.el10_2ALSA-2026:39296
Debian:12libinput1.22.1-1+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-50292
Debian:13libinput1.28.1-1+deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-50292
Debian:14libinput1.31.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-50292
Rocky Linux:10libinput0:1.30.1-2.el10_2RLSA-2026:39296
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibinput1.20.0-1ubuntu0.4USN-8602-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibinput1.20.0-1ubuntu0.4UBUNTU-CVE-2026-50292
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibinput1.25.0-1ubuntu3.7USN-8753-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibinput1.25.0-1ubuntu3.7UBUNTU-CVE-2026-50292
Ubuntu:25.10libinputno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-50292
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibinput1.31.1-1ubuntu1.2UBUNTU-CVE-2026-50292
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibinput1.31.1-1ubuntu1.2USN-8753-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
freedesktop libinput 0 – before 1.30.41.31.0 – before 1.31.3

Weakness: CWE-93 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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