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No real-root or CAP_SETUID capability is required for the vulnerable lookup path; this remains PR:L even inside user namespaces.\nUI:N - Exploitation requires only the attacker's own keyctl syscalls and does not depend on any victim user action such as mounting a filesystem or opening a file.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel memory corruption and privilege escalation within the same kernel security domain; it does not cross a VM, container, or IOMMU boundary on its own.\nC:H - assoc_array_find() is documented to require an RCU read lock, but the persistent-keyring path called it without one while assoc_array_gc() frees tree nodes via call_rcu(), yielding a use-after-free on assoc_array nodes/leaves. 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