CVE-2026-23270

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-03-18. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks

As Paolo said earlier [1]:

"Since the blamed commit below, classify can return TC_ACT_CONSUMED while the current skb being held by the defragmentation engine. As reported by GangMin Kim, if such packet is that may cause a UaF when the defrag engine later on tries to tuch again such packet."

act_ct was never meant to be used in the egress path, however some users are attaching it to egress today [2]. Attempting to reach a middle ground, we noticed that, while most qdiscs are not handling TC_ACT_CONSUMED, clsact/ingress qdiscs are. With that in mind, we address the issue by only allowing act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks. That way it's still possible to attach act_ct to egress (albeit only with clsact).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/674b8cbfc385c6f37fb29a1de08d8fe5c2b0fbee.1771321118.git.pabeni@redhat.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
1st
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 18, 2026

Last Modified

October 15, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Jun 10, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3c380a54e33d1fd272cc342faa906d787d7ef1
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc4e5bb529823a09f02dbe96169de679a9db26e0
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9deda0fcda5c1f388c5e279541850b71a2ccfcf4
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a110ddcc99bda77a28598b3555fe009eaab3828
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/524ce8b4ea8f64900b6c52b6a28df74f6bc0801e
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/380ad8b7c65ea7aa10ef2258297079ed5ac1f5b6
Web page

net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11cb63b0d1a0685e0831ae3c77223e002ef18189

Patch Availability(14)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-477.150.1.el8_82026-07-06redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-55.77.1.el10_02026-06-08redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-570.119.1.el9_62026-06-04redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-284.174.1.el9_22026-06-03redhat
redhatkernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.174.1.rt14.459.el9_22026-06-03redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-553.126.1.el8_102026-05-28redhat
redhatkernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.126.1.rt7.467.el8_102026-05-28redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-427.127.1.el9_42026-05-27redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-211.16.1.el10_22026-05-20redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-687.10.1.el9_82026-05-20redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-124.55.1.el10_12026-05-04redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_72026-05-04redhat
linuxKernel @ 5.15.203 (fixes >=0)—osv
linuxKernel @ 6.1.167 (fixes >=0)—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux-6.16.1.106-3~deb11u1 ... 6.1.164-1~deb11u1 (16 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.170-1~deb11u1: fixed in 6.1.170-1~deb11u1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (48 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.170-1: fixed in 6.1.170-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.85-1~bpo12+1 (17 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.85-1: fixed in 6.12.85-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.19~rc8-1~exp1 (121 versions)
  • every version up to 6.19.8-1: fixed in 6.19.8-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 246 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 147 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-15 02:38 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-15 02:38 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-15 02:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  4. 2026-10-15 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-15 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-15 01:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  7. 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
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  10. 2026-10-12 16:21 UTCEG score recompute
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  14. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
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  1. 2026-09-28 01:19 UTCOSV refresh
  2. 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
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  14. 2026-09-08 09:18 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-08 09:18 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-09-08 09:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  20. 2026-09-02 18:08 UTCOSV refresh
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  36. 2026-08-16 11:15 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-08-16 11:15 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-08-16 11:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  39. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  41. 2026-08-14 20:15 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-08-14 20:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  43. 2026-08-14 07:23 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-14 07:23 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-08-14 07:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  46. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  47. 2026-08-12 22:10 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-08-12 22:10 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-08-12 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  50. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  51. 2026-08-11 21:31 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-08-11 21:31 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-08-11 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  54. 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  55. 2026-08-11 04:36 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-08-11 04:36 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-08-11 04:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  58. 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  59. 2026-08-10 08:41 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-10 08:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  61. 2026-08-09 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-08-09 19:49 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-08-09 19:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  64. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  65. 2026-08-09 06:58 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-08-09 06:58 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-08-09 06:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  68. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  69. 2026-08-08 06:23 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-08-08 06:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  71. 2026-08-07 17:31 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-08-07 17:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62jp-jvc3-7hh9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  73. 2026-08-06 19:29 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-08-06 19:29 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-23270?
CVE-2026-23270 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 18, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks As Paolo said earlier [1]: "Since the blamed commit below, classify can return TCACTCONSUMED while the current skb being held by the defragmentation…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-23270 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-23270 was published on March 18, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-23270 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-23270 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-23270?
CVE-2026-23270 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-23270?
A fix for CVE-2026-23270 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-23270 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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