CVE-2026-44778

LOWPre-NVD 2.92.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This low-severity CVE scores 2.9 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.6% (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from a secondary CVSS source
Sources: EPSS, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-78938 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7cfq-5mhv-jrp9 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

2.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 2.9Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF. From 0.28.0 until 0.53.1, the USDT note parser in pkg/uprobetracer/usdt.go can allow an unprivileged container to crash or exhaust the memory of the privileged Inspektor Gadget process when a custom gadget containing a SEC("usdt/...") eBPF section attaches to a crafted ELF binary. The getUsdtInfo() function reads the .note.stapsdt section without validating that DescSize is large enough for three address fields, allowing an out-of-bounds slice operation to panic, and it uses untrusted NameSize and DescSize values for allocations that can consume gigabytes of memory. The parser also invokes debug/elf without panic recovery, allowing other malformed ELF structures to terminate the process. No gadget shipped by Inspektor Gadget uses USDT probes, so only deployments using custom USDT gadgets are affected, and the demonstrated impact is denial of service rather than code execution or privilege escalation. This issue is fixed in version 0.53.1.

CVSS v3
2.9
EG Score
2.9LOWmedium confidence
EG Risk
13
EG Risk 13/100

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)
Severity29% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 2.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 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 every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (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
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
50th
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 (2.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 2.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
2.9 LOWCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-29). 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 every mission impact level.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 every mission impact level.

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

Exploitation none (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

June 22, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

References (5)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-44778(1)

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

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
github.com/inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget—
  • 0.28.0 up to 0.53.1: fixed in 0.53.1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 37× 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.

  1. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  2. 2026-10-29 17:10 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  4. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  5. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  6. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  7. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 14:27 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  10. 2026-10-24 12:25 UTCOSV refresh
  11. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  12. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  13. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  14. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  15. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  16. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  17. 2026-10-18 03:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  19. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  20. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  21. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  22. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  23. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  24. 2026-10-12 16:04 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-11 19:47 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 17:01 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 14:27 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  4. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  5. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  6. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  7. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  8. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  9. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  10. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  11. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  12. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  13. 2026-09-30 17:53 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  15. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  16. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  17. 2026-09-23 17:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  18. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  19. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  20. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  21. 2026-09-17 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  23. 2026-09-15 17:34 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-15 17:03 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 2.9 LOW
  25. 2026-09-15 17:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 2.9 · CVSS v4 → 2.9
  26. 2026-08-01 04:29 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-07-26 15:58 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-07-23 03:15 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-06-22 20:36 UTCEG score recompute

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-44778?
CVE-2026-44778 is a low-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 22, 2026. Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF. From 0.28.0 until 0.53.1, the USDT note parser in pkg/uprobetracer/usdt.go can allow an unprivileged container to crash or exhaust the memory of the…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-44778 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-44778 was published on June 22, 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 September 30, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-44778 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-44778 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-44778?
CVE-2026-44778 has a CVSS base score of 2.9 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-44778?
A fix for CVE-2026-44778 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-44778 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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