CVE-2026-23461

HIGHNVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-04-03. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-18722 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-ggw5-jw3c-r95v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.8EG
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: 0.2%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user

After commit ab4eedb790ca ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix corrupted list in hci_chan_del"), l2cap_conn_del() uses conn->lock to protect access to conn->users. However, l2cap_register_user() and l2cap_unregister_user() don't use conn->lock, creating a race condition where these functions can access conn->users and conn->hchan concurrently with l2cap_conn_del().

This can lead to use-after-free and list corruption bugs, as reported by syzbot.

Fix this by changing l2cap_register_user() and l2cap_unregister_user() to use conn->lock instead of hci_dev_lock(), ensuring consistent locking for the l2cap_conn structure.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
13th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

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 (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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 Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). 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

April 3, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated May 2, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da3000cbe4851458a22be38bb18c0689c39fdd5f
Web page

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c22a5e659959eb77c2fbb58a5adfaf3c3dab7abf
Web page

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/752a6c9596dd25efd6978a73ff21f3b592668f4a
Web page

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71030f3b3015a412133a805ff47970cdcf30c2b8
Web page

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11a87dd5df428a4b79a84d2790cac7f3c73f1f0d

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-23461(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(15)

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

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
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
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.19~rc8-1~exp1 (123 versions)
  • every version up to 6.19.10-1: fixed in 6.19.10-1
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Weakness Classification(2)

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

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 44× 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 279 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 180 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  5. 2026-10-27 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ggw5-jw3c-r95v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  16. 2026-10-19 19:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ggw5-jw3c-r95v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  17. 2026-10-19 18:49 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-19 18:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ggw5-jw3c-r95v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  25. 2026-10-16 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ggw5-jw3c-r95v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  58. 2026-08-16 09:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ggw5-jw3c-r95v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-23461?
CVE-2026-23461 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 3, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2capunregisteruser After commit ab4eedb790ca ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix corrupted list in hcichandel"), l2capconndel() uses conn->lock to protect access to conn->users. However,…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-23461 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-23461 was published on April 3, 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 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-23461 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-23461 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (13th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-23461?
CVE-2026-23461 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-23461?
A fix for CVE-2026-23461 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-23461 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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