CVE-2026-50292
libinput: local privilege escalation via crafted uinput devices
Severity by source
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Amazon (high), Azure Linux (high), Red Hat (medium), AlmaLinux (medium), Oracle (medium), Rocky Linux (medium), Ubuntu (medium).
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 and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| alma 10 | libinput, libinput-devel, libinput-utils | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| amazon linux 2 | libinput, libinput-debuginfo, libinput-devel | 1.8.4-2.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput, libinput-debuginfo, libinput-debugsource and 5 more | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| Azure Linux 3.0 | libinput | 0:1.25.0-2.azl3 |
| debian 11 | libinput | 1.16.4-3+deb11u1 |
| debian 12 | libinput | 1.22.1-1+deb12u1 |
| debian 13 | libinput | 1.28.1-1+deb13u1 |
| debian 14 | libinput | 1.31.3-1 |
| echo | libinput | 1.22.1-1+deb12u1 |
| rapidfort alma 10 | libinput, libinput-devel, libinput-utils | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| rapidfort alma 8 | libinput, libinput-devel, libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rapidfort alma 9 | libinput, libinput-devel, libinput-utils | no fix listed |
Show all 55 entries from 28 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| alma 10 | libinput | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| alma 10 | libinput-devel | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| alma 10 | libinput-utils | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| amazon linux 2 | libinput | 1.8.4-2.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | libinput-debuginfo | 1.8.4-2.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | libinput-devel | 1.8.4-2.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-debuginfo | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-debugsource | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-devel | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-test | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-test-debuginfo | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-utils | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| amazon linux 2023 | libinput-utils-debuginfo | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| Azure Linux 3.0 | libinput | 0:1.25.0-2.azl3 |
| debian 11 | libinput | 1.16.4-3+deb11u1 |
| debian 12 | libinput | 1.22.1-1+deb12u1 |
| debian 13 | libinput | 1.28.1-1+deb13u1 |
| debian 14 | libinput | 1.31.3-1 |
| echo | libinput | 1.22.1-1+deb12u1 |
| rapidfort alma 10 | libinput | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| rapidfort alma 10 | libinput-devel | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| rapidfort alma 10 | libinput-utils | 1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| rapidfort alma 8 | libinput | no fix listed |
| rapidfort alma 8 | libinput-devel | no fix listed |
| rapidfort alma 8 | libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rapidfort alma 9 | libinput | no fix listed |
| rapidfort alma 9 | libinput-devel | no fix listed |
| rapidfort alma 9 | libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rapidfort amazon linux 2023 | libinput | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| rapidfort amazon linux 2023 | libinput-devel | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| rapidfort amazon linux 2023 | libinput-test | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| rapidfort amazon linux 2023 | libinput-utils | 1.26.2-1.amzn2023.0.2 |
| rapidfort debian 12 | libinput | 0:1.28.1-1+deb13u1, 0:1.31.3-1 |
| rapidfort debian 13 | libinput | 0:1.28.1-1+deb13u1, 0:1.31.3-1 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | libinput | 0:1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | libinput-utils | 0:1.30.1-2.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | libinput | no fix listed |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rapidfort rocky 8 | libinput | no fix listed |
| rapidfort rocky 8 | libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rapidfort rocky 9 | libinput | no fix listed |
| rapidfort rocky 9 | libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rapidfort ubuntu 20.04 | libinput | 0:1.25.0-1ubuntu3.7 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 22.04 | libinput | 0:1.25.0-1ubuntu3.7 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 24.04 | libinput | 0:1.25.0-1ubuntu3.7 |
| Red Hat | libinput | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libinput-devel | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libinput-utils | no fix listed |
| rocky 10 | libinput | 0.0.0 |
| rocky 10 | libinput-utils | 0.0.0 |
| ubuntu 20.04-ESM | libinput | 1.15.5-1ubuntu0.3+esm1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | libinput | 1.20.0-1ubuntu0.4 |
| ubuntu 24.04 | libinput | 1.25.0-1ubuntu3.7 |
| ubuntu 26.04 | libinput | 1.31.1-1ubuntu1.2 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39296
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50292
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2485390
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485390
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-50292
- https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-39296.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:39296
All 17 references
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/commit/76f0d8a7f57e2868882864b4611281f12f704b55
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/work_items/1296
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2026-50292.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-39296.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50292
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8602-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8753-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50292
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/04/5