CVE-2026-53179

HIGHNVD 7.17.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-25. NVD baseline CVSS 7.1; 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-2026-39270 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.1EG
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: 7.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection

rtw_update_protection() is called with a pointer offset into the ies buffer but the full ie_length is passed, causing a potential buffer over-read.

CVSS v3
7.1
EG Score
7.1HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
32
EG Risk 32/100

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)
Severity71% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
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
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
5th
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 (7.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.1 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. 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 (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

June 25, 2026

Last Modified

October 21, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Jul 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c35ce55b12bb8fcd365daeb516e9782048119b36
Web page

staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/735dabdf21561a24d8bcae456c9c32f7f961a029
Web page

staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/514ab98364595007d4557ecc85d7e5f012c504d3
Web page

staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/303f65af819f6d5aa302e82bce72b57a8575faea

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-53179(2)

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

Patch Availability(12)

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

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (358 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.95-1~bpo12+1 (29 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.95-1: fixed in 6.12.95-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.0.9-1~bpo13+1 (146 versions)
  • every version up to 7.0.13-1: fixed in 7.0.13-1
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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 13× 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 100 of 258 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 158 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-21 13:46 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-21 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  11. 2026-10-21 12:54 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-21 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-21 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  19. 2026-10-17 11:12 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-17 11:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  25. 2026-09-23 09:31 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-23 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  30. 2026-09-18 07:38 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-18 07:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  35. 2026-09-14 01:26 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-14 01:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  38. 2026-09-13 09:44 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-13 09:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  42. 2026-09-12 15:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  53. 2026-08-30 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  58. 2026-08-28 02:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  63. 2026-08-25 01:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  65. 2026-08-24 13:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  66. 2026-08-23 23:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  68. 2026-08-23 10:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  70. 2026-08-22 22:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  72. 2026-08-22 10:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  74. 2026-08-21 19:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jr2w-mc6v-cfpj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-53179?
CVE-2026-53179 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 25, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtwupdateprotection rtwupdateprotection() is called with a pointer offset into the ies buffer but the full ie_length is passed, causing a potential buffer over-read.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-53179 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-53179 was published on June 25, 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 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-53179 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-53179 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (5th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-53179?
CVE-2026-53179 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-53179?
A fix for CVE-2026-53179 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-53179 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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