CVE-2026-53166

NONEPre-NVD 0.0
0.0
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • No confirmed exploitation signals yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: —Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

futex/requeue: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove_waiter() on self-deadlock

When FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI requeues a non-top waiter that already owns the target PI futex, task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() returns -EDEADLK before setting waiter->task.

The subsequent remove_waiter() in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() dereferences the NULL waiter->task, causing a kernel crash.

Add a self-deadlock check for non-top waiters before calling rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(), analogous to the top-waiter check in futex_lock_pi_atomic().

CVSS v3
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EG Score
0.0(none)
EPSS
7.0%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 25, 2026

Last Modified

June 30, 2026

References (3)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-53166(2)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-06 08:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-05 02:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-03 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-06-30 21:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-06-28 03:36 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-06-28 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-06-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-06-25 10:09 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-06-25 10:09 UTCGHSA enrichment

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-53166?
CVE-2026-53166 is a none vulnerability published on June 25, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: futex/requeue: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove_waiter() on self-deadlock When FUTEXCMPREQUEUE_PI requeues a non-top waiter that already owns the target PI futex, taskblocksonrtmutex() returns -EDEADLK before setting…
When was CVE-2026-53166 disclosed?
CVE-2026-53166 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 25, 2026, with the most recent update on June 30, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-53166 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-53166 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 7.0% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-53166?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-53166, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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