# CVE-2024-26918: PCI: Fix active state requirement in PME polling

> A logic error in Linux kernel PCI PME polling causes device scanning failures for Thunderbolt/USB4 NVMe endpoints, resulting in denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26918, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26918, GHSA-qcrv-2gf7-9hrp, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26918

## What is CVE-2024-26918?

CVE-2024-26918 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI: Fix active state requirement in PME polling

The commit noted in fixes added a bogus requirement that runtime PM managed
devices need to be in the RPM_ACTIVE state for PME polling.  In fact, only
devices in low power states should be polled.

However there's still a requirement that the device config space must be
accessible, which has implications for both the current state of the polled
device and the parent bridge, when present.  It's not sufficient to assume
the bridge remains in D0 and cases have been observed where the bridge
passes the D0 test, but the PM state indicates RPM_SUSPENDING and config
space of the polled device becomes inaccessible during pci_pme_wakeup().

Therefore, since the bridge is already effectively required to be in the
RPM_ACTIVE state, formalize this in the code and elevate the PM usage count
to maintain the state while polling the subordinate device.

This resolves a regression reported in the bugzilla below where a
Thunderbolt/USB4 hierarchy fails to scan for an attached NVMe endpoint
downstream of a bridge in a D3hot power state.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26918?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26918?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26918 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26918 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26918 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26918 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26918 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26918/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26918/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26918
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26918
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26918

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