CVE-2026-56289

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.64.6—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 4.6 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 97% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
4.6
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 4.6Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

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

GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to improper validation of hunk (single block of changes in diff) line offsets in unified-diff input. A specially crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing the application to enter an effectively infinite processing loop while attempting to locate the requested position. This results in excessive CPU consumption and prevents the process from completing. An attacker can trigger this behavior by supplying a malicious patch file, causing the utility to become unresponsive and require manual termination.

This issue has been fixed in the commit faba04ef4f2b410257f76c1b9dc85e350929c4b9

CVSS v3
4.6
EG Score
4.6(medium)
EPSS
2.6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 9, 2026

Last Modified

July 9, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jul 9, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Vulnerabilities in GNU patch software | CERT Polska

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-56288

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56289(2)

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

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 11× 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. 2026-07-12 08:33 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-12 08:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-11 09:14 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-07-11 09:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-07-10 09:56 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-07-10 09:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-07-09 10:36 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-07-09 10:35 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-56289?
CVE-2026-56289 is a medium vulnerability published on July 9, 2026. GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to improper validation of hunk (single block of changes in diff) line offsets in unified-diff input. A specially crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing the application to enter an effectively infinite processing…
When was CVE-2026-56289 disclosed?
CVE-2026-56289 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 9, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-56289 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-56289 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.6% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-56289?
CVE-2026-56289 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.6 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-56289?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-56289, 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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