CVE-2026-23679

MEDIUMNVD 5.56.2
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 6.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-05-27. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.7.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
6.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

libusb before version 1.0.30 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that allows attackers to crash applications by supplying a malformed USB configuration descriptor where an interface claims bNumEndpoints greater than zero but is followed by a class-specific descriptor whose bLength exceeds the remaining buffer size, causing parse_interface() to return early without allocating the endpoint array. Attackers can exploit this flaw through libusb_get_active_config_descriptor or libusb_get_config_descriptor by providing crafted descriptors via virtualized USB passthrough, file-based descriptor parsing, or network sources, causing any application iterating over endpoints to dereference a NULL endpoint pointer and crash.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
6.2MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

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)
Severity62% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.2 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
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 public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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
7th
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 (6.2): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.2 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.2 MEDIUMCVSS-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 2026-10-17). 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: 60 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 public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 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 partial (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

May 27, 2026

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Jun 13, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_pr, github_release.
Web page

Two memory-safety bugs in libusb/descriptor.c found by fuzzing (parse_interface NULL endpoint, parse_iad_array OOB read) · Issue #1813 · libusb/libusb · GitHub

https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/1813
Web page

libusb < 1.0.30 NULL Pointer Dereference in parse_interface() | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libusb-null-pointer-dereference-in-parse-interface
GitHub release Patch Available

v1.0.30: libusb 1.0.30

Patch available: libusb/libusb v1.0.30

https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/tag/v1.0.30
GitHub pull request

Fix/descriptor parser memory safety

Upstream fix in progress (PR #1814 · libusb/libusb, state=closed)

https://github.com/libusb/libusb/pull/1814
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 578ab76b4c43 (libusb/libusb)

Patch available: libusb/libusb v1.0.30-rc2 (contains commit 578ab76b4c43)

https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/578ab76b4c434f8b204137ab6d7310689c7a9704

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatlibusb1-main-1.0.30-1.hum12026-05-21redhat

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

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libusb-1.02:1.0.24-3 ... 2:1.0.30~rc2-1 (20 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libusb-1.02:1.0.26-1 ... 2:1.0.30~rc2-1 (16 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libusb-1.02:1.0.28-1 ... 2:1.0.30~rc2-1 (6 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libusb-1.02:1.0.28-1, 2:1.0.29-1, 2:1.0.29-2, 2:1.0.30~rc1-1, 2:1.0.30~rc2-1
  • every version up to 2:1.0.30-1: fixed in 2:1.0.30-1
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PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libusb1.0.22b2 ... 1.0.30rc2 (31 versions)
  • every version up to 1.0.30: fixed in 1.0.30
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× 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 274 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 175 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  8. 2026-10-14 20:38 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-14 20:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jp69-qvgm-mqwx · GitHub CVSS 6.2
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  15. 2026-09-14 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jp69-qvgm-mqwx · GitHub CVSS 6.2
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-23679?
CVE-2026-23679 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 27, 2026. libusb before version 1.0.30 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that allows attackers to crash applications by supplying a malformed USB configuration descriptor where an interface claims bNumEndpoints greater than zero but is followed by a class-specific descriptor whose bLength…
When was CVE-2026-23679 made public?
CVE-2026-23679 was made public on April 25, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on May 27, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 14, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-23679 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-23679 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-23679?
CVE-2026-23679 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 6.2 (MEDIUM).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-23679?
A fix for CVE-2026-23679 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-23679 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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